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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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