Find results with:

Search by date

To link to this object, paste this link in email, IM or document

To embed this object, paste this HTML in website

Polio whirlpool therapy

View Description

Download

small (250x250 max)

medium (500x500 max)

large ( > 500x500)

Full Resolution

Print

Loading content ...

you wish to report:

Your comment:

Your Name:

Submit

Cancel

...

Order Number	00056930
Title	Polio whirlpool therapy
Collection ID	Herald Examiner Collection
Location/Accession	HE box 2262.
Date	1945
Physical Description	1 photograph :b&w
Description	A patient relaxes in the swirling water of this big Hubbard tank, part of new equipment in Cedars of Lebanon Hospital's remodeled physical therapy department. Here limbs crippled with polio or stiff with war-wounds will be coaxed back to life. The only one of its kind in a Southern California civilian hospital, the tank was displayed November 26, 1945, for the first time at a formal opening of the new facilities.
Subject	Cedars of Lebanon Hospital (Los Angeles, Calif.). Hospitals--California--Los Angeles. Whirlpools. Poliomyelitis--California--Los Angeles. Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs. Herald-Examiner Collection photographs.
Format	Photographic prints
Reproduction Information	Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Sub-Collection Name	Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection