An unofficial blog about the National Museum of Health and Medicine (nee the Army Medical Museum) in Silver Spring, MD. Visit for news about the museum, new projects, musing on the history of medicine and neat pictures.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Swine flu? How about Spanish flu?
Smith Flu 3: Convalescent pneumoconiosis
In these days of our photographs of the WW1 influenza epidemic appearing in papers (uncredited at times, alas), here's a reminder that you can see all of our photographs from two other epidemics on our website - 1918 Influenza Epidemic and 1957 Influenza Epidemic.
58-15573-67 - Child Gargling Broth, Sagamihara Hospital, Japan, August 9, 1957.
Labels:
influenza,
Japan,
World War 1
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