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The Malaria Investigation Institute - a collection of photographs and paper items - 1920s

Opening price: $120

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04.04.2022 07:00pm

15 photographs of Hebrew researchers as part of the activities of the "Institute for the Study of Malaria", which dealt with the attempt to find a cure for the most common disease in Eretz Israel in the 1920s - the malaria - led by pharmacist Yitzhak Kovelman, as well as group photographs of his research colleagues. In addition, a letter sent to Kovelman on a postcard, from the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Strasbourg in France in 1931, which deals with findings sent by him to the research laboratories in Strasbourg.

In the photos: a rare group photo of the Institute for the Study of Malaria in 1925, which shows the leaders of researchers in the Land of Israel who were engaged in the study of malaria (in the center Kovelman himself), doctors in the laboratory during the study, doctors sent to malaria distribution centers in Eretz Israel - fields and swamps - in order to bring findings from the field about the components of the virus, a group photograph of researchers on a ship in Tevet 1929, and more.

Attached: Nine business cards of various doctors, Kovelman's research colleagues, among them Kovelman's own card.

15 photographs / postcard sent to Kovelman / 9 business cards. general condition very good.

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104. The Malaria Investigation Institute - a collection of photographs and paper items - 1920s