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| | Hook's wound Rorkes Drift. | |
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Dave
Posts : 1603 Join date : 2009-09-21
| Subject: Hook's wound Rorkes Drift. Thu Mar 04, 2010 10:32 pm | |
| Hook sustained a wound at the Battle of Rorke’s Drift from an Assegai. He claimed it caused him many problems in later life.
Is anybody able to clarify? In what way the injury caused him problems.
Was it nightmares or would it just not heal. |
| | | 90th
Posts : 10882 Join date : 2009-04-07 Age : 67 Location : Melbourne, Australia
| Subject: hook"s wound Thu Mar 04, 2010 10:37 pm | |
| hi Dave . The wound was an assagai to the forehead if I"m not mistaken , without looking anything up , I think he suffered from headaches . cheers 90th. |
| | | Dave
Posts : 1603 Join date : 2009-09-21
| Subject: Re: Hook's wound Rorkes Drift. Thu Mar 04, 2010 10:46 pm | |
| Thanks 90th for the quick responce.
I was just seeing if there was a connection between the red Indians and the Zulu’s. The Indians supposedly dip the arrows in dung with caused the wound to become infected, which prevented the natural healing process for many years after. Did the Zulu’s do the same? |
| | | ADMIN
Posts : 4349 Join date : 2008-11-01 Age : 65 Location : KENT
| Subject: Re: Hook's wound Rorkes Drift. Thu Mar 04, 2010 10:53 pm | |
| Dave good question.
“Biological warfare has been around for at least 2500 years. In the sixth century B.C., the Assyrians used rye ergot to poison enemy wells. In the fifth century B.C., Scythian archers dipped their arrows into animal dung to cause wounds to fester.” |
| | | 90th
Posts : 10882 Join date : 2009-04-07 Age : 67 Location : Melbourne, Australia
| Subject: hook"s wound Thu Mar 04, 2010 10:56 pm | |
| hi Dave . I"m not aware of any instances during the war where this occured . cheers 90th. |
| | | ADMIN
Posts : 4349 Join date : 2008-11-01 Age : 65 Location : KENT
| Subject: Re: Hook's wound Rorkes Drift. Thu Mar 04, 2010 11:01 pm | |
| Of course their spears would not have been the cleanest of implements. |
| | | Dave
Posts : 1603 Join date : 2009-09-21
| Subject: Re: Hook's wound Rorkes Drift. Thu Mar 04, 2010 11:03 pm | |
| Came across this.
" The biocontrol potential of Bacillus subtilis isolated from cow dung microflora was investigated in vitro and in vivo against two postharvest yam pathogenic fungi, Fusarium oxysporum and Botryodiplodia theobromae. B. subtilis strains inhibited the growth of F. oxysporum and B. theobromae in vitro in liquid medium in the range of 49.3–56.6% and in solid medium in the range of 31.0–36.0%, in comparison to the corresponding growth of fungi without bacterial inoculation. The interaction between B. subtilis CM1 and F. oxysporum was also studied by scanning electron microscopy. Chitinase production was demonstrated in vitro when B. subtilis was grown in the presence of colloidal chitin as the sole carbon source in a liquid medium. In vivo study showed that B. subtilis strains inhibited the growth of fungi (F. oxysporum and B. thobromae) up to 83% in wound cavities of yam tubers." |
| | | 90th
Posts : 10882 Join date : 2009-04-07 Age : 67 Location : Melbourne, Australia
| Subject: hook"s wound Thu Mar 04, 2010 11:05 pm | |
| hi Dave. I didnt know you are bi - lingual :lol!: . English will suffice . :lol!: :) . cheers 90th. |
| | | ADMIN
Posts : 4349 Join date : 2008-11-01 Age : 65 Location : KENT
| Subject: Re: Hook's wound Rorkes Drift. Thu Mar 04, 2010 11:10 pm | |
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| | | Dave
Posts : 1603 Join date : 2009-09-21
| Subject: Re: Hook's wound Rorkes Drift. Thu Mar 04, 2010 11:11 pm | |
| Come on. Don't tell you don't understand it. |
| | | 90th
Posts : 10882 Join date : 2009-04-07 Age : 67 Location : Melbourne, Australia
| Subject: hook"s wound Thu Mar 04, 2010 11:14 pm | |
| Dave. I was fine till I got to " The " :lol!: . cheers . |
| | | Saul David 1879
Posts : 527 Join date : 2009-02-28
| Subject: Re: Hook's wound Rorkes Drift. Fri Mar 05, 2010 8:17 am | |
| Dave. I would say that was pretty Straight forward. |
| | | Frank Allewell
Posts : 8572 Join date : 2009-09-21 Age : 77 Location : Cape Town South Africa
| Subject: Re: Hook's wound Rorkes Drift. Fri Mar 05, 2010 10:04 am | |
| 90th Im with you, us colonials are all the same. However having spent 4 hours with a dictionary Im able to translate it as: " a bit of crud got into the flesh and hurt him"
Hope that helps.
Regards PS Saul Davids was showing of. |
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