New attack on cancer
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| 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.) |
| 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
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| Subject: |
Brooklyn Hospital. Hospital patients Radiation Radiography, Medical |
| 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 |
