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Tetanin
Webster's Dictionary
(n.) A poisonous base (ptomaine) formed in meat broth through the agency of a peculiar microbe from the wound of a person who has died of tetanus; - so called because it produces tetanus as one of its prominent effects.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Tetanin'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/t/tetanin.html. 1828.