Saved by surgery

Saved by surgery
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Title: Saved by surgery
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Saved by surgery--Tuberculosis calls for surgery is majority of cases at Brooklyn Thoracic Hospital, where some 42 percent of patients receive some form of collapse therapy. In photo are Dr. Leon Rudorfer, resident physician; Mildred Mayer, anesthetist, and Mabel Alexander, nurse."

Date: 1946
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Creator: Brooklyn eagle.
More Details: Date stamped on verso: Dec. 29, 1946; on caption: "Eagle staff photo."
Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched.
Title from caption on verso.
Collection: Hospitals
Subject: Brooklyn Thoracic Hospital (New York, N.Y.)
Anesthesiologists
Hospitals
Nurses
Physicians
Surgery
Women's hospitals
Portraits
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 0143