Rh factor

General

Description

Originally broadcast as a segment of the television program Johns Hopkins science review on July 24, 1951 from the studios of WAAM in Baltimore, Md. Black and white. Lynn Poole, producer; Ed Sarrow, director; Joel Chaseman, announcer; produced by WAAM television station in Baltimore, Md. for the Dumont Network. Lynn Poole, Bentley Glass, presenters. Digitized in 2003.

Abstract

In 1939 the presence of the Rh factor was discovered to be in the blood of a large majority of human beings. This explains the some of the problems in pregnancy and childbirth when a father is Rh positive and the mother is Rh negative, which can cause hemolytic disease of newborns.
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Dates

Date Published

1951-07-24
Publisher
Language
Identifiers

OCLC Number

53311539

Collection Number

COLL-0008

Item Barcode

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Resources
Resource Type
Moving Image

Extent

00:29:35hh:mm:ss
Contributor
Broadcaster (brd): Du Mont Television Network
Director (drt): Sarrow, Ed
Production personnel (prd): Glass, Bentley, 1906-2005
Production personnel (prd): Poole, Lynn
Producer (pro): Poole, Lynn
Copyright and Use
System
Access Rights
Public digital access
Model
Video

Unique ID

118a573e-337a-4719-9fde-76d432e09260