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    In 1914, Harry Plotz, a 25-year old doctor at Mt. Sinai Hospital discovered a serum for typhus that was to help eradicate a major health problem in louse-infested army camps during World War I and beyond. This album is a collection of Plotz-related newspaper articles, images, and medical history websites that could become part of STEM curriculum around issues of vaccinations. 

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    Dr. Harry Plotz
    Health Team Poland.jpg
    A School Teacher Made This Man Great
    Typhus Discovery Described in Paper.pdf
    The Southern herald., May 28, 1915, Image 1
    Charles Abram Gildersleeve, US Army Medic 1898.jpeg
    Military Medicine in World War I
    We've fought in the open - bubonic plague, yellow fever, tuberculosis--now venereal diseases / H. Dewitt Welsh.
    WWII RESTRICTED FILM - FIGHTING LICE LOUSE CONTROL
    Plotz Obituary_NY Times_7 Jan 1947.pdf
    Military Medicine in World War I
    Why they have Typhus in Roumania. Typhus is epidemic in Roumania. It is a disease carried by body lice. Where people are cleanly in their habits of life typhus is an impossibility. But in Roumania, cleanliness is virtually impossible. The American Red Cross Commissioner to Roumania, iin his official report, tells why cleanliness is impossible in hundreds of Roumanian villages. Describing one section which is a typical section by the way he says, "they have very little soap, no bedding, no clean clothing for the Typhus sufferers and no food." Hospital facilities are hopelessly inadequate. About all that hospital treatment amount to in such a community is isolating the typhus and small pox victims from the remainder of the community
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