Penicillin
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Title
Penicillin
Subject
US Flight Nurse giving penicillin to a patient on evacuation flight
Description
This image shows US Navy Flight Nurse Ensign Miriam R. Serrick, from North Carolina, giving a patient a penicillin injection during an evacuation flight in 1945.
Penicillin, discovered by bacteriologist Alexander Fleming in 1928, was used worldwide by medics and nurses in World War II. American nurses, like many other nurses around the world, were trained to give penicillin injections and did so frequently, as the drug helps prevent infection and was one of the only proven antibiotic treatments available for protecting soldiers from gangrene and other infections in wounds.
Penicillin, discovered by bacteriologist Alexander Fleming in 1928, was used worldwide by medics and nurses in World War II. American nurses, like many other nurses around the world, were trained to give penicillin injections and did so frequently, as the drug helps prevent infection and was one of the only proven antibiotic treatments available for protecting soldiers from gangrene and other infections in wounds.
Creator
Unknown Photographer, US Navy
Source
Women of World War II Website: "Featured: Navy Nurses: Flight Nurse Gives Patient Penicillin Injection," by Margie Bedell-Burke, November 5, 2017, image courtesy of the National Museum of the US Navy: https://www.womenofwwii.com/navy/navy-nurses/flight-nurse-gives-patient-penicillin-injection/
Publisher
National Museum of the US Navy, US Navy
Date
Accessed April 27, 2020
Rights
Public Domain
Format
Photograph (jpg)
Language
English
Type
Still Image
Identifier
US Navy Flight Nurse Gives Penicillin to Patient 1945
Coverage
US Navy Flight Nurses of WWII, Penicillin in WWII
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
black and white photograph
Physical Dimensions
2616 X 2132
Collection
Citation
Unknown Photographer, US Navy , “Penicillin,” US Nurses in World War II, accessed April 20, 2024, https://usnursesww2.omeka.net/items/show/63.