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  • Patient in respirator, with nurse

    Description:
    A patient lies in an early tank respirator, often referred to as an "iron lung." Respirators were used primarily as treatment for polio. The first tank respirator, credited to Philip Drinker and Louis Shaw, was developed in 1929.
    Date:
    1951

  • D. Gordon Sharp and electron microscope

    Description:
    D. Gordon Sharp (M.A. Duke, 1937 and Ph.D., Duke, 1939) operates the electron camera in a laboratory. "This $18,000 electron microscope which takes pictures of tiny viruses and magnifies them as much as 100,000 times their actual size, has just...
    Date:
    1950

  • D. Gordon Sharp and electron microscope

    Description:
    D. Gordon Sharp (M.A. Duke, 1937 and Ph.D., Duke, 1939) operates the electron camera in a laboratory. "This $18,000 electron microscope which takes pictures of tiny viruses and magnifies them as much as 100,000 times their actual size, has just...
    Date:
    1950

  • Pathologist at a work station in a research laboratory

    Description:
    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...
    Date:
    circa 1948

  • Glen R. Gale in laboratory

    Description:
    Glen R. Gale using a microscope to study organisms in a laboratory. At age 19, Gale discovered an unnamed organism with remarkable killing powers against dangerous fungi. After graduation from Duke University in 1953 (Ph.D.), Gale went on to serve...
    Date:
    1948

  • John Hickam measuring blood gases

    Description:
    Hickam, a professor of medicine at Duke University from 1947 to 1957, uses a machine to measure blood gases.
    Date:
    circa 1947

  • X-ray technologists Sudie "Ma" Whitfield, Colleen Cooper, and Lyle Upchurch

    Description:
    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...
    Date:
    1946

  • X-ray technician Sudie "Ma" Whitfield using equipment

    Description:
    Whitfield was an x-ray technician during the 1940s. Duke Hospital's x-ray technician training program was started by Robert J. Reeves in 1930.
    Date:
    circa 1946

  • Patient undergoing an x-ray examination

    Description:
    Patient laying on x-ray examination table with machinery above her. Duke Hospital's x-ray technician training program was started by Robert J. Reeves in 1930.
    Date:
    circa 1946

  • Student at work in Zoology Dept. laboratory

    Description:
    Bob Curry (M.D., Duke, 1943) in the laboratory feeding white mice, which were used in a chigger study.
    Date:
    circa 1942-1943

  • Students in laboratory of Dr. Haywood Taylor

    Description:
    Haywood with three female students in a laboratory. Daisy Ashley (rear left), Haywood Taylor, Beth Ayers (right). Ashley and Ayers graduated with the class of 1942. Haywood, a member of the original faculty, was a professor of toxicology from 1930...
    Date:
    circa 1938-1942

  • Bacteriology laboratory of Mary Poston

    Description:
    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...
    Date:
    circa 1938-1941

  • Operation under Sterilamp using ultraviolet light

    Description:
    J. Deryl Hart and Dept. of Surgery surgical team in protective clothing operating on a patient under the Sterilamp, an ultraviolet light source hanging from the operating room ceiling. In 1936, Dr. J. Deryl Hart originated the use of ultraviolet...
    Date:
    1937

  • X-ray technician Joanna Law Martin examines a patient

    Description:
    Martin guides the x-ray machine over the patient's torso. Duke Hospital's x-ray technician training program was started by Robert J. Reeves in 1930.
    Date:
    circa 1937-1938

  • J. Lamar Callaway's hospital office and x-ray equipment

    Description:
    Callaway's office and patient examination room with x-ray equipment. Callaway (M.D., Duke, 1933) served as a member of the house staff of Duke Hospital and professor of dermatology or syphilology from 1933 to 1975. He was chair of the Dept. of...
    Date:
    1937

  • J. Deryl Hart and surgical team operating under ultraviolet lights

    Description:
    Operation under ultraviolet light. Surgeons and others are dressed in protective clothing. In 1936, Dr. J. Deryl Hart originated the use of ultraviolet radiation to control airborne infections in surgical operating rooms, a technique that became...
    Date:
    circa 1937

  • Exhibit Room B, postgraduate course on fractures

    Description:
    (Signs from left to right) Skeletal fraction femur; Skeletal traction humerus; Fracture of surgical neck of the humerus with rubber muscle; Hall fracture bed; Russell method of balanced traction for fracture of femur.
    Date:
    1934

  • Exhibit Room B, postgraduate course on fractures

    Description:
    (Left) Conwell-Herzmark Hypertension frame. (Right) Skeleton with Roger Anderson splint and Hoke traction for arm. This course was held Oct. 12-13, 1934 in Duke Hospital.
    Date:
    1934

  • Exhibit Room A, postgraduate course on fractures

    Description:
    X-ray slides and exhibits on tables. This course was held Oct. 12-13, 1934 in Duke Hospital.
    Date:
    1934

  • Exhibit Room A, postgraduate course on fractures

    Description:
    Instruments, models, braces, x-ray slides and exhibits on tables. This course was held Oct. 12-13, 1934 in Duke Hospital.
    Date:
    1934

  • X-ray room in Duke Hospital

    Description:
    X-ray screen, table, and other equipment in Duke Hospital. Duke Hospital's x-ray technician training program was started by Robert J. Reeves in 1930.
    Date:
    1933

  • Sterilizer equipment in Duke Hospital

    Description:
    Patient care and dietetics items awaiting sterilization treatment in a sterilizer room at Duke Hospital.
    Date:
    1930

  • Ophthalmology

    Description:
    A hospital staff member checks a patient’s eyes. The Division of Ophthalmology (located under the Department of Surgery) began with only one clinic per week. It grew to daily sessions, held for a time in the old reading room of the Library. W....
    Date:
    circa 1930-1940

  • Wayland E. Hull demonstrating an air flow monitoring machine

    Description:
    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

  • X-ray technology at Duke Hospital

    Description:
    Duke Hospital staff member with an x-ray screen in an examination room. Courses in roentgenology and radiology were taught at Duke Hospital as early as 1930 by staff in the hospital's radiology department. The radiology department held weekly...
    Date:
    undated

  • Hospital staff with an artificial kidney machine

    Description:
    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

  • Clothing worn to protect physicians from ultraviolet lights during operation

    Description:
    Male modeling a protective mask, hat, and gown. In 1936, Dr. J. Deryl Hart originated the use of ultraviolet radiation to control airborne infections in surgical operating rooms, a technique that became widely accepted across the country. This...
    Date:
    undated

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

    Description:
    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

  • Technician using an early x-ray camera

    Description:
    An x-ray technician of Duke Hospital guides an x-ray camera over a patient's body. Duke Hospital's x-ray technician training program was started by Robert J. Reeves in 1930.
    Date:
    undated

  • X-ray room in Duke Hospital

    Description:
    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

  • Technicians in the laboratory of Walter Kempner using the Warburg apparatus

    Description:
    Technicians in the laboratory of Dr. Walter Kempner, professor of medicine. In the foreground is the Warburg apparatus, in which chemical reactions of surviving kidney cells are studies. In the background is a flame photometer, used for...
    Date:
    undated

  • Dept. of Surgery staff wearing clothing to protect them during operations under ultraviolet lights

    Description:
    Dept. of Surgery staff in an operating room dressed in protective gowns, gloves, goggles, and hoods. In 1936, Dr. J. Deryl Hart originated the use of ultraviolet radiation to control airborne infections in surgical operating rooms, a technique...
    Date:
    undated

  • Operation under ultraviolet light with an x-ray screen in use

    Description:
    J. Deryl Hart and surgical team in protective clothing operating under ultraviolet lights. In 1936, Dr. J. Deryl Hart originated the use of ultraviolet radiation to control airborne infections in surgical operating rooms, a technique that became...
    Date:
    undated

  • Operating room with ultraviolet lights overhead

    Description:
    Operating room with ultraviolet light, x-ray screen, instrument table, and patient bed prepared for surgery. In 1936, Dr. J. Deryl Hart originated the use of ultraviolet radiation to control airborne infections in surgical operating rooms, a...
    Date:
    undated

  • Ultraviolet lights system hanging from operating room ceiling

    Description:
    Completed ultraviolet lights system hanging from the operating room ceiling. In 1936, Dr. J. Deryl Hart originated the use of ultraviolet radiation to control airborne infections in surgical operating rooms, a technique that became widely accepted...
    Date:
    undated

  • Sketch of ultraviolet lights system for operating room

    Description:
    Sketch showing transformers and special radiation tube installation for operating room ultraviolet lights system installation. In 1936, Dr. J. Deryl Hart originated the use of ultraviolet radiation to control airborne infections in surgical...
    Date:
    undated

  • Nose and throat treatment

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