Herman Max Schiebel was member of the house staff of Duke Hospital and served as professor of surgery during the early 1930s. He became assistant chief of surgical services for the Office of Civilian Defense, Reserve Unit of the United States Public...
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...
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 medical...
Brown graduated from Duke University School of Medicine in 1939. He was a Markle scholar and member of the house staff of Duke Hospital from 1940 to 1942 and professor of surgery from 1945 to 1970. During World War II, Brown was captain on the surgical...
Julian Deryl Hart came to Duke University in 1929 as a member of the original faculty of Duke Hospital. In 1929, Hart initiated the Private Diagnostic Clinic plan with Frederic Moir Hanes. He served as chair of the Private Diagnostic Clinic and later...
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 widely...
Dr. James H. Semans was a Duke University surgeon and urologist who combined a career as a leading medical scientist and physician with a passion for the arts and charitable causes. He was the husband of Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans.
James H. Semans, professor of urology in the Dept. of Surgery, served on the Duke faculty for 28 years. In the 1960s Semans, along with his wife Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans, helped to establish the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem,...