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  • Nurses attend to the wounded at the 65th General Hospital

    Description/Abstract: Nurses of the 65th General Hospital examine patients' legs. 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 Dr. E. L....
    Date: circa 1942-1944

  • Early Hospital lobby, the two-sided desk

    Description/Abstract: A nurse speaks on the phone at the two-sided desk in the original hospital lobby. The two-sided desk has a long history at Duke. In 1934, Thomas D. Kinney, a medical student, sat at the desk during his evening work in the foyer of Duke Hospital...
    Date: circa 1930

  • 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

  • Rachel Ann McSwain Harrell with a pediatric patient

    Description/Abstract: Harrell, a nursing student, prepares to administer a shot to an infant. Harrell graduated from the School of Nursing in 1948.
    Date: 1948

  • Mildred M. Sherwood

    Description/Abstract: 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...
    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 assists obstetrical patient and baby

    Description/Abstract: Duke nurse, wearing mask, assisting woman with baby.
    Date: 1948

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

    Description/Abstract: Phyllis Mertz, a School of Nursing student, assists Ruth Hunter, a Nursing Arts instructor, in taking a patient's blood pressure.
    Date: 1948

  • New mother, infant, and nurse in the Duke Hospital pediatrics ward

    Description/Abstract: A nurse feeds a newborn infant while the new mother looks on from her hospital bed.
    Date: undated