Doctors at St. Joseph Hospital inspect quick-freeze unit for bone marrow bank
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Valley Times Photo Collection
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This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Title supplied by cataloger. Photograph caption dated December 9, 1959 reads, "Quick-Freeze Unit -- Dr. Reuben Straus, director of laboratories, left, and Dr. George M. Campion, radiology department head, at St. Joseph Hospital, Burbank, check quick-freeze unit for hospital's new bone marrow bank created for cancer patients to undergo heavier dosages of X-ray and cobalt treatments which normally would be fatal."
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ; 13 x 18 cm. Photographic prints
St. Joseph Hospital (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.) Hospitals--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Catholic hospitals--California--Los Angeles Hospital laboratories--California--Los Angeles Medical instruments and apparatus--California--Los Angeles Bone marrow--Transplantation Cancer--California--Los Angeles Physicians--California--Los Angeles Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs
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