Julius Youngner and Nurses

1955

Order Reproduction
Title
Julius Youngner and Nurses
Contributor
University of Pittsburgh (depositor)
Date
1955
Identifier
salk0021
Description
Julius Youngner draws blood from a nurse's left arm prior to her receiving the injection of polio vaccine so that her blood could be analyzed for antibodies against polioviruses. This would later on determine how the current injection of vaccine affected the levels of polio antibodies circulating in her bloodstream (either boosting levels of any preexisting antibody or inducing new antibody formation). The bent left arm was to put pressure on the venipuncture site to prevent bleeding from the vein that had been punctured by the needle.
Type
still image
Genre
photographs
photographic prints
gelatin silver prints
Subject
Virologists
Microbiologists
Nurses
Poliomyelitis vaccine
Youngner, Julius
Municipal Hospital (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Geographic Subjects
Oakland (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Source
Jonas Salk Polio Vaccine Collection, 1917-2005
Collection
Pitt Photographs
University of Pittsburgh Historic Photographs
Pitt Campus Life
Pitt Faculty
Contributor
University of Pittsburgh
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