Whitfield Cobb and James Shank use a "wet sheet pack" to quiet psychiatric patients. On October 27, 1942, Civilian Public Service (C.P.S.) Camp No. 61 was authorized as Duke Hospital under the direction of the department of neuropsychiatry. Under the...
Major Joseph B. Stevens (left), neurologist and executive officer of the hospital, records the actions of Cpl. James B. Millikan, a rehabilitation technician. Millikan is demonstrating a homemade rowing machine while Capt. J. Kent Davis checks the...
Civilian Public Service unit worker Gene Ransom. On October 27, 1942, Civilian Public Service (C.P.S.) Camp No. 61 was authorized as Duke Hospital under the direction of the department of neuropsychiatry. Under the program, conscientious objectors,...
Paul Brotsman kept records, acted as liaison between the unit and the Selective Service, The Methodist Commission on World Peace (administering agency for the Duke C.P.S. unit) and Duke officials. He also worked part-time on Meyer Ward and in the Child...
Illustration of the main entrance to Duke Chapel. Bob Blake was coordinator of the Division of Medical Illustration within the Duke University School of Medicine. He produced medical illustrations for Duke from about 1942 through the 1970s. (Robert L....
School of Nursing cadet nurses in uniform. Bessie Baker was the first dean of the School of Nursing (1930-1938). The first class was admitted on January 2, 1931 and graduated on June 7, 1933.
Glen Garber, Robert Seese, an anesthetist, and Wilbur Heisey move a patient from the operating room table to his bed. This work was ordinarily done by four people with an attendant on each end of a "draw sheet," an anesthetist and the head and another...
Olsen worked part time on Meyer Ward and part time in the psychiatric clinic at psychometrics. On October 27, 1942, Civilian Public Service (C.P.S.) Camp No. 61 was authorized as Duke Hospital under the direction of the department of neuropsychiatry....