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Title
Patient with a medicine bottle, Eastern province, Kenya, ca.1949
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1949
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information
For commercial reproduction please contact the National Library of Scotland by referring to http://www.nls.uk/copyright . For access to the originals please e-mail manuscripts@nls.uk
National Library of Scotland
National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EW, Scotland, UK
The National Library of Scotland license the use of this content under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 UK: Scotland License.
manuscripts@nls.uk
Description
“A medical safari.” Group portrait of indigenous people who have attended an outdoor clinic, one of them holds up a bottle of medicine. During the Wednesday medical safari Dr Irvine would examine patients and write a prescription which was taken to the dresser or nurse who would give the appropriate treatment. Ulcers, intestinal parasites and malaria where the three main conditions and between 200-300 patients could be seen in the day. ❧ The image is from the collection of Dr Archibald Clive Irvine (1893-1974) showing the period from 1928-1961 at the Chogoria mission which was established in 1922.
Type
image
Format
Photographic prints, 6 x 8.5 cm.
Identifier
impa-a-nls-97123629-1.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-82396
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-nls-97123629-1.jpg
Subject
Health care
Ethnic groups
Patients
Time Period
circa 1949
Place
Africa
Eastern
Kenya
Source
Acc.12016/10 [Reference number]
NLS DOD ID: 97123627 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from Scottish Missions, the National Library of Scotland
The Nile Valley album, 1947 & undated
image/tiff

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