Title: | New attack on cancer |
Description: | Caption: "new attack on cancer--The X-ray machine pictured here is one of two new 'moving beam' type of X-ray therapy units installed in the Brooklyn Hospital. Because the units can strike at surface or deep-seated cancers and tumors from many angles, they make possible a more concentrated treatment without damage to the healthy parts of the body. Developed in Germany, they are the first units of this kind to be installed in New York City." |
Date: | 1955 |
Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2] |
Creator: | Brooklyn eagle. |
More Details: |
Greasepencil cropping marks; retouched. Stamped on verso: date: Jan. 5, 1955; "Brooklyn Eagle." Title from caption on verso. |
Collection: | Hospitals [3]
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Subject: |
Brooklyn Hospital. [4] Hospital patients [5] Radiation [6] Radiography, Medical [7] |
Institution: | Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection. |
Medium: |
Gelatin silver prints. Photographic prints. |
Rights: | Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library |
ID: | HOSP 0076 |
Links:
[1] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/fullsize/externals/8a67ee854e46a21932df525b101f4259&ext=.jpg
[2] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/location/Brooklyn+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29
[3] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/collection/Hospitals
[4] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/b/Brooklyn Hospital.
[5] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/h/Hospital patients
[6] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/r/Radiation
[7] http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/subjects/r/Radiography, Medical