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Dr. A.D. Trotter holds a bottle of medicine that brought Mildred Gross back to life, Los Angeles, 1938

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Title: Dr. A.D. Trotter holds a bottle of medicine that brought Mildred Gross back to life, Los Angeles, 1938
Date Created and/or Issued: December 1, 1938
1938-12-01
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.
28-year-old Mildred Gross had been declared dead at Georgia Street Receiving Hospital from an overdose of sleeping powder. But over the course of an hour Dr. A.D. Trotter administered several intravenous injections to Mrs. Gross that successfully restored her pulse, respiration, and reflexes, even though she did not regain consciousness.
Dr. Trotter holds a small bottle that has a label which reads : PICROTOXIN SOLUTION 0.3% EXPERIMENTAL between his right thumb and forefinger. He points to the bottle with his other hand's forefinger.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Medical Science Restores Life to Woman Declared 'Dead'," Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov 1938: 1.
Text from negative sleeve: 15030 - Dr. A.D. Trotter (revived Mildred Gross after suicide attempt w/sleeping powder) 11-26-38 [stamped:] Dec 1 1938
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_11758
ark:/21198/zz002h8knx
Language: English
Subject: Physicians--American--California--Los Angeles
Medicine--California--Los Angeles
Trotter, A. D., 1899-1967
Georgia Street Receiving Hospital (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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