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Physical Therapy students, class of 1947, with instructor Mary Clyde Singleton, PT

Description/Abstract:	Physical Therapy students (class of 1947) in old gym. Left to right: Mary Clyde Singleton, PT, (instructor), Isabell Berry, Sally Bassett, unknown patient, Doris Miller (obscured by railing), Martha Parks, Rachel Nunley, Pat Barrett, Winnie...
Date:	1947

Grace Horton, PT, and Faith Gehweiler, PT, with young polio patient.

Description/Abstract:	Grace Horton (PT faculty and alumna) and Faith Gehweiler (class of 1955 and Duke clinician) with a young patient probably affected by polio.
Date:	1955-1959

Patient in respirator, with nurse

Description/Abstract:	A patient lies in an early tank respirator, often referred to as an "iron lung." Respirators were used primarily as treatment for polio. The first tank respirator, credited to Philip Drinker and Louis Shaw, was developed in 1929.
Date:	1951