Thermotherapy
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Hyperthermia Cancer Treatment at the AMC Cancer Research Center and Hospital, between 1950-1970
Item
Identifier: B063.03.0036.00004
Abstract
A male patient receiving hyperthermia treatment for cancer at the American Medical Center (AMC) Cancer Research Center and Hospital. Nurse Betty Bales is adjusting a thermometer for the treatment which helps to weaken cancer cells. AMC was located on the grounds of the former Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). The JCRS was a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients that was founded in 1904 by a group of immigrant Jewish workingmen along with the support of several leading physicians and...
Dates:
between 1950-1970
Hyperthermia Cancer Treatment at the AMC Cancer Research Center and Hospital, after 1955
Item
Identifier: B002.04.0215.0171.00004
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series contains a photo album, photographs, bulletin pages, drawings, lithographs, and contact sheets of the campus and buildings, patients and family, staff and volunteers, auxiliaries and conventions, and activities connected with the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society and the AMC Cancer Research Center.
Dates:
after 1955