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1. Nose and throat treatment

Description/Abstract:: A hospital staff member treats a patient with a variety of instruments at hand.
Date:: undated

2. X-ray room in Duke Hospital

Description/Abstract:: X-ray screen, table, and other equipment in Duke Hospital. Duke Hospital's x-ray technician training program was started by Robert J. Reeves in 1930.
Date:: 1933

3. Nurses in operating room during a surgical procedure

Description/Abstract:: Registered nurses administering anesthesia in a operating room of Duke Hospital.
Date:: 1940

4. Dr. Joseph G. Reeves, Dr. David C. Sabiston, and Dr. Robert Jones in operating room

Description/Abstract:: (L-R) Dr. Joseph G. Reeves, Dr. David C. Sabiston, and Dr. Robert Jones in one of Duke's four new cardiac operating rooms.
Date:: 1988

5. Therapeutic bed with compressor, invention of J. Deryl Hart.

Description/Abstract:: In the late 1920s, J. Deryl Hart invented a variable pressure bed (or air mattress) to ease patient’s bed sores. Hart patented many of his inventions, which also included a pneumatic bed, an operating room supply table, and a surgical basin with a...
Date:: undated

6. Staff in Duke Hospital's surgical instrument shop

Description/Abstract:: Hospital staff using machines and tools in the surgical instrument shop. The 984 sq. ft. shop was constructed around 1947, following plans by J. Deryl Hart, then chair of the Department of Surgery. In 1949, the shop was opened for the fabrication of...
Date:: undated

7. X-ray room in Duke Hospital

Description/Abstract:: Equipment in a Duke Hospital x-ray room. Duke Hospital's x-ray technician training program was started by Robert J. Reeves in 1930.
Date:: undated

8. Wayland E. Hull demonstrating an air flow monitoring machine

Description/Abstract:: Hull (seated) observes a Duke Hospital nurse as she breathes through a tube connected to a machine monitoring air flow. Hull used air flow measurements to study oxygen supply and the effects of anesthesia. Hull (Ph.D., Duke, 1946) was an instructor in...
Date:: undated

9. Early operating room

Description/Abstract:: One of the eleven operating and delivery rooms of Duke Hospital. A bed, surgical basin, and other equipment are shown.
Date:: undated

10. Early operating room

Description/Abstract:: 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.
Date:: circa 1930-1934