Panama City: the school of medicine subsequently converted into the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory. Photograph, ca. 1928.

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1928
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Panama City: the school of medicine subsequently converted into the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory. Photograph, ca. 1928. Wellcome Collection. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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A school of medicine in Panama City, between Santo Tomás Hospital and the Hospital Panamá, and part of the site of the Panama Pacific Exposition, was granted in 1928 as the building of the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory (Wright, op. cit.). The inscription shown in this photograph ("Escuela de medicina") was replaced by one sayng "Gorgas Memorial Laboratory" (ibid. fig. 4). The building was reopened as the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory in 1929

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1928

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1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 18.7 x 23.6 cm

References note

Willard H. Wright, 40 years of tropical medicine research: a history of the Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine, inc. and the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory, Washington 1970

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Wellcome Collection 665460i

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