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  • Nose and throat treatment

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

  • 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...
    Date: undated

  • Original operating room, view from above

    Description/Abstract: This photograph of the original operating room shows the layout of the room, including the operating table, various equipment, and supplies.
    Date: undated

  • 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

  • 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

  • Inside view of the Duke Hospital surgical instrument shop

    Description/Abstract: Machinery and layout 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 surgical and...
    Date: undated

  • Nurses in operating room during a surgical procedure

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Dr. Richard B. Raney with a patient

    Description/Abstract: Dr. Richard B. Raney fits a neck brace onto an African-American patient in the Orthopaedic Clinic. A nurse assists. Raney served on the house staff of Duke Hospital from 1934 to 1952. Dr. R.B. Raney authored "Primer on Prevention of Deformities in...
    Date: 1939

  • Sterilizer equipment in Duke Hospital

    Description/Abstract: Patient care and dietetics items awaiting sterilization treatment in a sterilizer room at Duke Hospital.
    Date: 1930

  • 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

  • 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...
    Date: undated

  • J. Lamar Callaway's hospital office and x-ray equipment

    Description/Abstract: Callaway's office and patient examination room with x-ray equipment. Callaway (M.D., Duke, 1933) served as a member of the house staff of Duke Hospital and professor of dermatology or syphilology from 1933 to 1975. He was chair of the Dept. of...
    Date: 1937

  • Nursing student with a patient care supply cart in Duke Hospital

    Description/Abstract: A uniformed School of Nursing student with a cart full of patient care items including medicines and linens.
    Date: undated

  • X-ray technologists Sudie "Ma" Whitfield, Colleen Cooper, and Lyle Upchurch

    Description/Abstract: Cooper and Upchurch watch as Whitfield demonstrates use of x-ray equipment. Cooper and Whitfield were technologists at Duke during the 1940s. Upchurch was employed with Watts Hospital in Durham, N.C. Duke Hospital's x-ray technician training...
    Date: 1946