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Dr. Harry Plotz (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:

  Plotz, a bacteriologist at Mount Sinai Hospital, developed a typhus vaccine that was widely used during WWI.

• swanq said:

  A photo in similar attire was featured in the NYT pictorial section of May 2, 1915, page 8 memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/np_item.pl?collection=sgproto&... or memory.loc.gov/service/sgp/sgpnyt/1915/191505/19150502/00... Caption says he had recently announced the discovery of the bacillus and vaccine to the New York Pathological Society.

• Barbara (LOC P&P) said:

  Spurred by another photo of him recently posted, we'll have an opportunity to update two descriptions! Thanks so much.