Doctor administering radioactive sodium phosphate to a patient in a hospital bed, St. Louis, Missouri, 1945
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Photograph. Doctor administering radioactive sodium phosphate to a patient in a hospital bed. Official Caption: "Here a physician of the Washington University Medical School in the U.S. is shown administering purified radioactive sodium phosphate to a patient by an intravenous injection. In this case, the salt is used in the treatment of polycythenia, a disease of the bone marrow characterized by an excess of cells, particularly of red corpuscles. 6533E." St. Louis, Missouri, United States. 1945
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1945
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Items from the service of Isaac "Ike" Bethel Utley, who was born in Smith Mills, Kentucky on 3 March 1920. Ike enlisted in the Army Air Corps on 19 January 1942. He was shipped overseas to the European Theatre and worked with a supply division based out of the city of Naples with an office set up in a residential villa. Utley worked with the Office of War Information and used their photographs in news articles to inform soldiers of the progress of the war. At war's end, Utley returned stateside. A trunk full of over 800 photographs from the O.W.I. arrived on his doorstep from his office in Italy, sender unknown. This collection consists of those photographs.
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Saint Louis
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38.617
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-90.183
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Injections--Missouri
Physicians--American--Missouri
Sick persons--Missouri
Health care--Missouri