Group photo of the Division of Cardiology. Row 1 (L to R): C. Frank Starmer, Joseph R. Kisslo, Walter L. Floyd, Robert E. Whalen, Yihong Kong, Andrew G. Wallace. Row 2 (L to R): Edward Pritchett, James J. Morris, Victor S. Behar, Michael Hindman, Fred...
Frederick Bernheim speaking at his retirement dinner. Dr. Bernheim was one of the original members of the faculty of the Duke University Hospital and School of Medicine. He served as professor of pharmacology from 1930 until 1975.
Weekly clinical-pathological conferences offered both students and staff a chance to study in detail pathological findings gained from autopsies and to determine the degree of accuracy of diagnosis made on these patients. Originally published in the...
Pat Payne (Physical Therapy class of 1955) and Martha Freeman (standing, Physical Therapy class of 1953) with an unknown patient. Picture taken when both were on Duke Clinical Staff.
Physical Therapy faculty and staff in the old gym area. Front row, left to right: William Schmidt, Helen Kaiser, Carolyn Burnett, Wilma Abrams, Eleanor Flanagan, Beth Usher, Connie Jenks, Robert Federchuck; Back row, left to right: Lois Perkins,...
Carl Rogers was part of the original staff of Duke Hospital. He was known as the much beloved and admired "right hand" man of School of Medicine dean Wilburt C. Davison, who called him his "assistant dean."
Members of the physical therapy class of 1950 in the basement of Duke Hospital (Physical Therapy department). An unknown physical therapist is in the original treatment pool with a polio patient.
Duke faculty and hospital staff in the amphitheater. (Left to right, Row 1) Watt Eagle, Mary Poston, Julian Ruffin, Nell Paschall, Lillie Pladman, Mary Stokes. (Row 2) Durena Wetmore, Carrie Sykes, Annie H. Campbell, Lillian Trevathan, Susan Whitfield,...
Pathologist working with a specimen. According to a news article, "in only 2-10 minutes pathologists can report to waiting surgeons whether or not a patient on the operating table has cancer. Here a pathologist uses a 'microtome' to freeze a section of...
Cooper and Upchurch watch as Whitfield demonstrates use of x-ray equipment. Cooper and Whitfield were technologists at Duke during the 1940s. Upchurch was employed with Watts Hospital in Durham, N.C. Duke Hospital's x-ray technician training program...
Goldner began his career at Duke University as an associate in orthopedics. In 1949 he was the department's chief resident. He was chief of the Department of Surgery's Division of Orthopedic Surgery from 1967 to 1984.
Uniformed male and female house staff, interns, or faculty of the Dept. of Surgery. (Partial description of the front row, left to right) Lennox D. Baker, Watt Eagle, Joseph W. Beard, J. Deryl Hart, Edwin P. Alyea, W.B. Anderson.
Two patients registering at a Duke Hospital outpatient clinic of the Private Diagnostic Clinic. The Private Diagnostic Clinic (PDC) was organized on September 15, 1931 to coordinate the diagnostic studies and to give better care for the complicated...
The Dept. of Neuropsyhiatry was established in 1931 with Ernest Marsh Poate as chair. The chair of the department during the time of this photograph was Richard S. Lyman (1940-1951).
This photograph shows those members of the Duke School of Medicine staff who were present 15 years ago in 1930, when the School of Medicine and Duke Hospital opened. (Left to right, Row 1) Martin, Mary Poston, Marion F. Batcheldor, Mildred Sherwood,...
65th General Hospital operation. (L-R) 2nd Lt. Mary L. Lineberger, 2nd Sgt. Ersul C. Russell, Maj. William Dr. Farmer, 1st Lt. Mona L. Currie. The idea for a Duke hospital army unit was born in October 1940, the brainchild of Wilburt C. Davison, then...
Truman Kirkpatrick, a former industrial chemist, at work in the blood chemistry laboratory of Duke Hospital. 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...
Donald Hayman shown typing case histories as recorded on a dictaphone cylinder. The Civilian Public Service Unit was established on October 27, 1942 at Duke Hospital under the direction of the Department of Neuropsychiatry. Conscientious objectors were...
Duke Hospital house staff from the Department of Surgery. Julian Deryl Hart was chair of the Dept. of Surgery during this time. The majority of the individuals in this photograph were on house staff between 1944 and 1950. (From left to right, Row 1)...
After serving as an attendant at Duke Hospital and Highland Hospital, John Reibel took special training in physical therapy at Duke, and worked in the physical-therapy clinic. On October 27, 1942, Civilian Public Service (C.P.S.) Camp No. 61 was...
In addition to working as an attendant on Duke's psychiatric ward, Gabriel Lasker spends time on a dental research problem. An anthropoligist, Gabriel helped with Chinese language classes of the Civilian Public Service Unit. On October 27, 1942,...
Assistants Troyer and Hill operating on a rat to learn more about hypertension. Troyer also worked in the Department of Surgery's experimental surgery division and the hospital emergency room. On October 27, 1942, Civilian Public Service (C.P.S.) Camp...
Demonstration of the use of the Bridgers Apparatus at the 65th General Hospital. William H. Bridgers was a fellow in surgery and chief of neurosurgery in the 65th General Hospital during World War II. Bridgers (M.D., Duke, 1936) was a member of the...
Marvin Dyck taking a patient's blood pressure reading of a patient with protracted narcosis. 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....
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,...
Uniformed male house staff, interns, or faculty of the Dept. of Radiology. (Back row, left to right) James G. Whildin, George J. Baylin, David McCulloch, Albert C. King, Robert J. Reeves. (Front row, left to right) Frank T. Moran, Paul A. Jones,...
Uniformed members of the 65th General Hospital (students, faculty, staff, or alumni) with tents and camping gear on Duke University's east campus parking lot. The Duke Chapel and other campus buildings are in the background. The idea for a Duke...
Uniformed male members of the 65th General Hospital at a formal going-away party held at the Hope Valley Country Club in Durham, N.C.. The party was held on July 15, 1942, just twelve days after receiving orders to report to Ft. Bragg, N.C. for...
Officers in uniform. The idea for a Duke hospital army unit was born in October 1940, the brainchild of Wilburt C. Davison, then dean of the Duke University School of Medicine. The Army reserve unit's original core, activated in July 1924, consisted of...
Female nurses of the 65th General Hospital at a formal going-away party held at the Hope Valley Country Club in Durham, N.C.. The party was held on July 15, 1942, just twelve days after receiving orders to report to Ft. Bragg, N.C. for training. (Back...
School of Medicine and Duke Hospital staff at a dinner party. Dean of the School of Medicine Wilburt Cornell Davison is seated at the near end of the table, facing the camera. Callaway married Catharine Dater Van Blarcom, an instructor of nursing at...
Physician with a patient at the Duke Hospital Blood Bank. From 1933 to 1940 each division of Duke Hospital maintained its own blood bank, usually on individual wards, making Duke one of the first hospitals in the country to have blood banks. During...
Warner Lee Wells received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Duke University (A.B., 1934; M.D., 1938). He was a member of the house staff of Duke Hospital and an associate in the Dept. of Surgery (1938-1945).
An African-American worker opens the rear end of the ambulance. A guard stands in the emergency room doorway. The original emergency room unloading platform could only accommodate one ambulance.
(From left to right) Eugene Brown, pharmacy intern from 1939 to 1940; Thomas Reamer, associate in pharmacy from 1931 to circa 1970; Archie Millis, Lieutenant with 65th General Hospital; and Hunter Kelly, pharmacy intern at Duke from 1940 to 1941.
Doctors and a nurse prepare a cast on a patient’s arm in the plaster room of the Orthopaedic Clinic. (Left to right) Dr. Warner Wells (A.B., Duke, 1934 and M.D., Duke, 1938; house staff and associate in Surgery from 1938 to 1945), Dr. Laszlo Ormandy...
Mary Poston, James G. Whilden (left), and an unidentified person exampine a specimen in the Poston laboratory. Poston, a member of the original faculty, was an instructor in bacteriology from 1930 to 1960. Whildin (M.D., Duke, 1937) was a member of the...
Uniformed male and female house staff, interns, or faculty of the Dept. of Pediatrics. (Back row left to right) Wilburt Cornell Davison (dean of the School of Medicine, 1927-1960), Karl Shepard (house staff, 1939), Angus McBryde (associate professor of...
A receptionist answers the phone while seated at the two-sided desk in the Hospital lobby, Spring 1938. The receptionist may be Lillian D. Trevathan, the original phone operator at Duke Hospital who later became chief of information desk personnel. ...
Bridgers graduated from Duke University School of Medicine in 1936. He was part of the Duke Hospital house staff from 1936 to 1940. In the early 1940s, Bridgers served with the 65th General Hospital as neurosurgeon for the unit. He traveled to London...
Radiology staff standing in front of Duke Hospital. On October 1, 1930 Dr. Robert J. Reeves helped to establish an x-ray technician training program in Duke Hospital which led to the development of the Dept. of Radiology at Duke University. Courses in...
Attendees of the first organizational meeting of the Southern Association of Practising Pathologists. The meeting was organized by Wiley D. Forbus (chair of Dept. of Pathology 1930-1960) in 1935. The association met again in 1937 in Duke University's...