Image / Dr. James Homer Burgan finishes a new treatment for tuberculosis, Tujunga, 1934

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Title: Dr. James Homer Burgan finishes a new treatment for tuberculosis, Tujunga, 1934
Date Created and/or Issued: October 1934
1934-10
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
University of Minnesota graduate and tuberculosis specialist Dr. James Homer Burgan is to erect a laboratory and sanitarium for his new treatment of tuberculosis, which involves a serum extracted from female swine.
Photograph appears with the article, "New Serum To Be Used," Los Angeles Times, 04 Oct 1934: A10.
Text from newspaper caption: Dr. James Homer Durgan, who will administer new serum in battle against tuberculosis.
Text from negative sleeve: BURGAN, JAMES HOMER DR.
Handwritten on negative: Dr James Homer Burgan 7254 Foothill Blvd. Tujunga
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_1225
ark:/21198/zz002dbncd
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Portrait photographs
Physicians--American--California--Los Angeles
Sanatoriums--California--Tujunga
Tuberculosis--California--Los Angeles
Sanatoriums--California--Los Angeles
Burgan, James Homer, 1872-1949
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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