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Fever machine used to kill germs, Wash. D.C. Bennie Smith, an arthritis patient, receives treatment at Gallinger Municipal Hospital in the fever machine used to raise temperatures artificially. With his temperature at 105 he grins and asks for more ice. Nurse-technician Ida Louise Rivers is counting his pulse while Dr. Edgar Babcock, superintendent, observes reactions. The artificial fever has been of definite benefit to this patient, the doctor said. It is also believed that this artificial fever will kill other germs, including those causing paresis. The machine was invented and developed by Charles F. Kettering in [...]

Fever machine used to kill germs, Wash. D.C. Bennie Smith, an arthriti...

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In a room like this in an industrial plant, a little injury is deprived of its chance to be a big one. From the points of her starched cap to the points of her scissors, the industrial nurse is a discouragement to the germs of infection, while her sympathetic interest, her willingness to do everything she can, is an antidote for a grudge against the firm.

In a room like this in an industrial plant, a little injury is deprive...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of a room full of nurses treating men at tables.

Dr. Cox's assistant innoculating eggs with louse-borne typhus germs. USPHS (United States Public Health Service)  Rocky Mountain Laboratory, Hamilton, Montana

Dr. Cox's assistant innoculating eggs with louse-borne typhus germs. U...

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Innoculating eggs with louse-borne typhus germs. USPHS (United States Public Health Service)  Rocky Mountain Laboratory. Hamilton, Montana

Innoculating eggs with louse-borne typhus germs. USPHS (United States ...

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Health in a U.S. city: a serum and vaccine farm. Diphtheria germs injected into horse

Health in a U.S. city: a serum and vaccine farm. Diphtheria germs inje...

Photograph shows a biologist injecting a horse with diphtheria bacteria at the New York City Department of Health serum and vaccine farm, Otisville, New York. Portrait of America, series no. 99. Forms part of:... More

Lemonade and water peddlers in Constantinople do a thriving business Pure water is hard to obtain and few people care to risk the hydrand [i.e. hydrant] water which is filled with all sorts of disease germs.

Lemonade and water peddlers in Constantinople do a thriving business P...

Filed in: Turkey Supplies & warehouses. No. RC-3141. On mount: Turkey - Supplies. Forms part of: American National Red Cross photograph collection.

Outwitted by community sanitation Community sanitation planning keeps flies away from deadly disease germs... / / Buczak.

Outwitted by community sanitation Community sanitation planning keeps ...

Poster promoting sanitary facilities showing a giant fly above an outhouse. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Fever machine used to kill germs, Wash. D.C. Bennie Smith, an arthritis patient, receives treatment at Gallinger Municipal Hospital in the fever machine used to raise temperatures artificially. With his temperature at 105 he grins and asks for more ice. Nurse-technician Ida Louise Rivers is counting his pulse while Dr. Edgar Babcock, superintendent, observes reactions. The artificial fever has been of definite benefit to this patient, the doctor said. It is also believed that this artificial fever will kill other germs, including those causing paresis. The machine was invented and developed by Charles F. Kettering in ...

Fever machine used to kill germs, Wash. D.C. Bennie Smith, an arthriti...

A man and a woman are looking at a piece of paper, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection On sleeve: Please credit Harris & Ewing photos. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. General information about the... More

Dr. E.A. Steinhaus examining diseased germs isolated from ticks. USPHS (United States Public Health Service) Rocky Mountain Laboratory, Hamilton, Montana

Dr. E.A. Steinhaus examining diseased germs isolated from ticks. USPHS...

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Typhus vaccine department. Dr. Herrald R. Cox at the microscope, an assistant innoculating eggs from typhus germs in enclosed room. USPHS (United States Public Health Service) Rocky Mountain Laboratory, Hamilton, Montana

Typhus vaccine department. Dr. Herrald R. Cox at the microscope, an as...

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Dr. Cox's assistant innoculating eggs with louse-borne typhus germs. USPHS (United States Public Health Service)  Rocky Mountain Laboratory, Hamilton, Montana

Dr. Cox's assistant innoculating eggs with louse-borne typhus germs. U...

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