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  • Early operating room

    Descripción:
    Hospital staff, patient, and equipment in an early operating room of Duke Hospital. Two female members of the Duke Hospital staff are wearing surgical masks.
    Fecha de Creacion:
    circa 1930-1934

  • Student nurse and instructor take a patient's blood pressure

    Descripción:
    Phyllis Mertz, a School of Nursing student, assists Ruth Hunter, a Nursing Arts instructor, in taking a patient's blood pressure.
    Fecha de Creacion:
    1948

  • Officers of the 65th General Hospital at Ft. Bragg, N.C.

    Descripción:
    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,...
    Fecha de Creacion:
    1942

  • Nurses and servicemen of the 65th General Hospital

    Descripción:
    Uniformed nurses and servicemen of the 65th General Hospital awaiting embarkation for overseas duties. 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...
    Fecha de Creacion:
    undated

  • Mildred M. Sherwood

    Descripción:
    Sherwood with two pediatric patients outside of Duke Hospital. In 1930, when Duke Hospital was opened, Mildred M. Sherwood was put in charge of the Children's Ward. She was an instructor in pediatrics, and a nurse with the Mobile Medical Emergency...
    Fecha de Creacion:
    undated

  • Susan Dees

    Descripción:
    Susan Dees was professor of pediatrics from 1939 to 1978, and chief of the Dept. of Pediatrics, Division of Allergy-Immunology from 1948 to 1974. She established the pediatric allergy training program in the early 1940s.
    Fecha de Creacion:
    undated

  • Mycology students, School of Medicine class of 1947

    Descripción:
    Senior School of Medicine mycology students. Norman F. Conant, instructor of mycology, was chair of the Dept. of Microbiology from 1964 to 1968.
    Fecha de Creacion:
    1947

  • Social Services staff of Duke Hospital

    Descripción:
    Duke Hospital staff of the Social Service Division. The Division of Social Services was founded on September 1, 1937 with the support of Ms. Doris Duke. During World War II, the Social Service Division worked with the American Red Cross to assist...
    Fecha de Creacion:
    undated

  • Shirley Osterhout in the Duke Poison Control Center

    Descripción:
    Dr. Osterhout investigates household products in the Duke Poison Control Center. Dr. Shirley K. Osterhout came to Duke University in 1949 as an undergraduate. She obtained her MD from Duke in 1957 and continued in the Department of Pediatrics,...
    Fecha de Creacion:
    undated

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

    Descripción:
    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...
    Fecha de Creacion:
    1946