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1920s Immunization
Description:
Metropolitan Life Insurance company promoted diphtheria immunization in New York in the 1920s. The children lined to up received what at that time would have been toxin-antitoxin mixture.
Creator:
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.
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Park's Diphtheria Campaign