This film traces 300 years of progress in public health and medicine. It depicts Antonj van Leeuwenhoek, the first man to see microorganisms; Louis Pasteur and his work on vaccines; Joseph Lister and his work on antisepsis; Robert Koch, the discoverer of tubercle bacillus and the cholera germ; and Emil Von Behring using diphtheria antitoxin for the first time. It also shows a copy of the first microscope ever made, bacteria dying when heat is applied, and a June 1832 newspaper describing a cholera outbreak. Shots include stagecoach, sheep, and large medical lecture class with only one female.
Copyright:
The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
Extent:
012 min.
Color:
Black and white
Sound:
Sound
Credits:
Director, F. Lyle Goldman ; writers, Lago Galdston and I.A. Jacoby ; editor, Solis Feuerman.
Provenance:
Received: Feb. 23, 1965; donation; from Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.