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Earthquake/Turkey
Margaret Bourke-White1940
LIFE Photo Collection
New York City, United States
Turkish surgeon Dr. Necmi Ayanoglu reaching into the pleurisy patient's back incision & cutting out a piece of rib which causes pus & water from the infection to gush out, during operation in a makeshift railroad car surgery after an earthquake.
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- Title: Earthquake/Turkey
- Date: 1940
- Location: Erzincan, Turkey
- Physical Dimensions: B/W PRINT
- Subject Keywords: Turkey, Lungs, Turkish, Nurses, Operating Scenes, Necmi Ayanoglu, Doctors, Medicine, Earthquakes, Vintage Print, 1940s
- Publisher: TimeLife
- Usage: For personal non-commercial use only
- Provider: LIFE
- Photographer: Margaret Bourke-White
- Original ID: TimeLife_image_732676
- Credits: LIFE
- Copyright: © Time Inc.
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