Cartoon showing the terror of a patient and his wife as a surgeon opens his bag of instruments. Seeing the skeleton in the cupboard and a poster on the wall advertising a series of anatomical lectures, they fear that the patient will die and his...
Portrait bust of Wilhelm Konrad Rontgen by Christobel Cummings. 1940. Attached to wooden pedestal made by Jock Gault using oak rescued from an old Durham tobacco warehouse.
Dr. Grimson was a professor of surgery at Duke University from 1942-1976. While he performed many surgeries on peptic ulcers, he wanted to find a treatment without the risk that surgery presents. Time Magazine reported on November 28, 1949, that...