Julius Youngner and Nurses

1955

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Julius Youngner and Nurses
  • Title
  • Julius Youngner and Nurses
  • 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
  • Contributor
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Collection
  • University of Pittsburgh Historic Photographs
  • Rights Information
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