[higgmeister]

And you left out the big one for my family, “lockjaw” or tetanus.   I had a step first cousin who died at the age of six, the year before I was born, when he stepped on a nail in a board.   Every adult panicked when anyone got a puncture wound or deep cut.   The wound was wrapped with a rag and soaked in turpentine, then they prayed.

[Bernard Marx]

Oh yeah, tetanus. My young life was filled with those dreaded tetanus shots. Seems like I had one every month after all the usual scrapes and abrasions an active kid experiences. Sorry about your step-cousin but a vaccine was available as early as 1938. The disease is still with us today.
https://www.nvic.org/vaccines-and-diseases/Tetanus/vaccine-history.aspx