Feb 12 2011
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NCP4145 (by Otis Historical Archives Nat’l Museum of Health & Medicine)
Boy in Emerson respirator (iron lung) in Herman Keifer Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, due to polio, 1955
We’ve mostly forgotten how dreadful diseases like polio and smallpox were not so many years ago.
It always amazes me that people can claim that vaccination is pointless
(via tefea)
