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Start Over Location Duke Medical Center Library & Archives Year 1951

  • Ophthalmoscope

    Description:
    Ophthalmoscope donated by David C. Sabiston, Jr., MD
    Date:
    20th Century

  • Medicine Bottle

    Description:
    Medicine Bottle, Owens-Illinois Glass Company
    Date:
    20th century

  • Miss Farrar, Mrs. Trent, and Mrs. Farrar in Old Hosptial Library

    Description:
    Black and white photo of early library staff and Mrs. Trent in original library reading room.
    Date:
    1950s

  • Kymograph

    Description:
    Kymograph. Electric. 1950s. Brass drums mounted on teak base. Instrument used to measure and graphically record physiological responses: blood pressure, pulse, respiration, muscle contraction, nerve impulses, etc.
    Date:
    1950s

  • Heart/lung Machine developed by Duke

    Description:
    Heart-lung machine with heat exchanger and experimental pieces, including left to right: two unidentified parts, Blood Filter, Mayo type Blood Filter, Blood Pressure Gauges, Brown Heat Exchanger, Kay-Cross type of Disc Blood Oxygenator An...
    Date:
    1950s-1960s

  • In honor of...died in service WWII

    Description:
    Bronze plaque honoring Duke School of Medicine graduates who died in service during WWII.
    Date:
    1951

  • Reichert arc system. Germany.

    Description:
    Reichert arc system. Germany. 1951. This arc-radius system used Cartesian and polar coordinates. The instrument's large base allowed the brain target to be approached from any point on the skull. Modified in 1965 by Reichert and Dr. Mundinger, the...
    Date:
    1951

  • Kuntscher Nail

    Description:
    The Küntscher nail is an internal fixation device used to maintain the position of the fracture fragments during healing. Dr. Gerhard Küntscher pioneered this method in 1939 and it was used during WWII to quickly heal soldiers. This particular...
    Date:
    1951