This 1952 ad explaining what a vaccine is features early electron microscope images of viruses as part of a strange, fraught landscape through which a young girl is making her way. Sort of Tron-meets-Wonderland-by-way-of-Salk. Note that the ad laments the fact that researchers haven't been able to come up with a polio vaccine yet.
Vaccine ad, 1952
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