Washington University Medical School doctor working with patient, St. Louis, Missouri, 1945
Description:
Photograph. Washington University Medical School doctor working with patient. Official Caption: "A doctor of the Washington University Medical School uses a so-called Geiger counter to measure, from the outside and practically without touching the patient, the relative amount of radioactive phosphorus deposited in the patient's liver during the treatment for a disease of the bone marrow. Most of the phosphorus is deposited in the marrow but an accurate check is necessary to avoid its excess in other organs. 6533-F." St. Louis, Missouri. 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.
Geography:
Saint Louis
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38.617
Longitude:
-90.183
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Physicians--American--Missouri
Geiger counters--Missouri
Radioactive substances--Missouri