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  • Nurses' Aide training in Duke Hospital

    Description/Abstract: Two nurses or nurses' aides take the pulse of a patient in bed at Duke Hospital. The patient has a thermometer in his mouth.
    Date: 1942

  • Nurses care for patients of the 65th General Hospital

    Description/Abstract: Nurses or physicians tend to patients of the 65th General Hospital. The 65th General Hospital served as an affiliated unit of the Duke University School of Medicine during World War II. Authorized on October 17, 1940, the Hospital was headed by...
    Date: undated

  • Plaster room in the Orthopaedic Clinic

    Description/Abstract: 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...
    Date: circa 1940

  • Nurse giving water to a patient

    Description/Abstract: Nurse or recent nursing graduate gives water to a patient in bed at Duke Hospital. Nurse may be from the graduating class of 1943.
    Date: 1943

  • Duke Hospital outpatient clinic

    Description/Abstract: Patients and hospital staff interact in the Duke Hospital outpatient clinic waiting room. Between 1930 to 1940, approximately half a million visits were made to the outpatient clinic (referred to early on as the OPC). By the early 1950s, an...
    Date: circa 1930