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Historical: Places: Kinyoun's Laboratory: Staten Island
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| Title: | Historical: Places: Kinyoun's Laboratory: Staten Island |
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| Description: | In 1887, 27 year old Dr. Joseph Kinyoun set up his one person laboratory of hygiene to research cholera and other communicable diseases such as diphtheria, typhoid, small pox, typhus, plague and tuberculosis. This was the birth of NIH in a small attic room in the Marine Hospital in the village of Stapleton on Staten Island, New York. |
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| Topics/Categories: | Historical -- Places |
| Type: | Black & White Slide |
| Source: | National Cancer Institute |
| Author: | Unknown photographer/artist |
| AV Number: | AV-1887-3229 |
| Date Created: | 1887 |
| Date Added: | 1/1/2001 |
| Reuse Restrictions: | No - This image is in the public domain and can be freely reused. Please credit the source and/or author listed above. |
