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  • Nose and throat treatment

    Description/Abstract: A hospital staff member treats a patient with a variety of instruments at hand.
    Date: undated

  • Hospital staff with an artificial kidney machine

    Description/Abstract: Dr. Victor Murdaugh, in the tie, is demonstrating Duke's new Kolff twin coil artificial kidney machine for a physician from eastern North Carolina back in 1957-58. Invented by Willem Kolff, MD, of the Netherlands, this kidney machine was one of...
    Date: undated

  • Therapeutic bed with compressor, invention of J. Deryl Hart.

    Description/Abstract: In the late 1920s, J. Deryl Hart invented a variable pressure bed (or air mattress) to ease patient’s bed sores. Hart patented many of his inventions, which also included a pneumatic bed, an operating room supply table, and a surgical basin with a...
    Date: undated

  • Staff in Duke Hospital's surgical instrument shop

    Description/Abstract: Hospital staff using machines and tools in the surgical instrument shop. The 984 sq. ft. shop was constructed around 1947, following plans by J. Deryl Hart, then chair of the Department of Surgery. In 1949, the shop was opened for the fabrication...
    Date: undated

  • X-ray room in Duke Hospital

    Description/Abstract: Equipment in a Duke Hospital x-ray room. Duke Hospital's x-ray technician training program was started by Robert J. Reeves in 1930.
    Date: undated

  • Joseph W. Beard

    Description/Abstract: Dr. Joseph Beard and laboratory equipment. Dr. Beard was professor of surgery from 1937 to 1973. Beard and his wife Dorothy were an internationally prominent cancer team. In 1946 Beard became the James B. Duke professor of surgery and was...
    Date: undated

  • Wayland E. Hull demonstrating an air flow monitoring machine

    Description/Abstract: Hull (seated) observes a Duke Hospital nurse as she breathes through a tube connected to a machine monitoring air flow. Hull used air flow measurements to study oxygen supply and the effects of anesthesia. Hull (Ph.D., Duke, 1946) was an...
    Date: undated

  • Early operating room

    Description/Abstract: One of the eleven operating and delivery rooms of Duke Hospital. A bed, surgical basin, and other equipment are shown.
    Date: undated

  • Inside view of the Duke Hospital surgical instrument shop

    Description/Abstract: Machinery and layout in the surgical instrument shop. The 984 sq. ft. shop was constructed around 1947, following plans by J. Deryl Hart, then chair of the Department of Surgery. In 1949, the shop was opened for the fabrication of surgical and...
    Date: undated

  • Original operating room, view from above

    Description/Abstract: This photograph of the original operating room shows the layout of the room, including the operating table, various equipment, and supplies.
    Date: undated