Horse serum farm at Elstree, 1915
Horse serum farm at Elstree, 1915. One unusual contribution of the horse to the war effort was as a supply of serum which acted as an antidote to tetanus poisoning, also known as lockjaw. Serum, or blood fluid with the clotting agents removed, is collected from the blood of specially selected horses, who have carefully infected with the disease, and so built up an immunity to it
Picture No
11077318
Media ID
48574419
Size
6748px x 3536px
(1.8MB)
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Unattributed photograph in The Graphic, 27 November 1915, page 698
Date
1915
