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...
Uniformed nurses and servicemen of the 65th General Hospital awaiting embarkation for overseas duties. The idea for a Duke hospital army unit was born in October 1940, the brainchild of Wilburt C. Davison, then dean of the Duke University School of...
Uniformed male and female house staff, interns, or faculty of the Dept. of Radiology. Courses in roentgenology and radiology were taught at Duke Hospital as early as 1930 by staff in the hospital's radiology department. The radiology department held...
Duke Hospital staff member with an x-ray screen in an examination room. Courses in roentgenology and radiology were taught at Duke Hospital as early as 1930 by staff in the hospital's radiology department. The radiology department held weekly...
J. Deryl Hart and surgical team in protective clothing operating under ultraviolet lights. In 1936, Dr. J. Deryl Hart originated the use of ultraviolet radiation to control airborne infections in surgical operating rooms, a technique that became widely...
Duke Hospital staff of the Social Service Division. The Division of Social Services was founded on September 1, 1937 with the support of Ms. Doris Duke. During World War II, the Social Service Division worked with the American Red Cross to assist...
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 medical...
From 1944 to 1946 William Warner Shingleton was on the Duke Hospital house staff and an associate in surgery. He was also the first director of the Cancer Center at Duke.
Four nurses play a board game at a table in the interns' lounge. The interns' lounge was located in the house staff dormitory on the third floor of the hospital. In 1940, the third floor was rearranged to become the Meyer Ward for psychiatric patients...
Robert Randolph Jones was a member of the original faculty of the School of Medicine and Duke Hospital. He served as house staff and associate professor of surgery from 1930 to 1941. In 1941, he was fatally shot by a psychiatric patient who was...
Irene Cherhavy, a speech therapist, works with a young patient. Leslie B. Hohman, Duke University psychiatrist and director of the Child Guidance Clinic and the patient's mother are also present. In the audience are members of the clinic staff. This...
F. Ross Porter, with F. Vernon Altvater, was one of Duke Hospital's first administrative interns when the hospital opened in 1930. In 1932 he was appointed assistant superintendent of Duke Hospital, and in 1933 he was certified in hospital...
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 Dr. E....
Dept. of Surgery staff in an operating room dressed in protective gowns, gloves, goggles, and hoods. In 1936, Dr. J. Deryl Hart originated the use of ultraviolet radiation to control airborne infections in surgical operating rooms, a technique that...
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...
An x-ray technician of Duke Hospital guides an x-ray camera over a patient's body. Duke Hospital's x-ray technician training program was started by Robert J. Reeves in 1930.
Rodney Lehman at work in the physiology department of Duke Hospital. On October 27, 1942, Civilian Public Service (C.P.S.) Camp No. 61 was authorized as Duke Hospital under the direction of the department of neuropsychiatry. Under the program,...
Altvater graduated from Duke University (A.B., 1930 and M.A., 1932). He earned a certificate in hospital administration in 1933. An original member of the faculty, held the position of the superintendent of Duke Hospital from 1930 to 1946.
Portrait of Dr. Grace Kerby, who worked at Duke from 1940 until her retirement in 1976. In 1946 she became the first female chief resident in the Department of Medicine, and in 1964 she became the first female full professor in the department....
Dr. Victor Murdaugh, in the tie, is demonstrating Duke's new Kolff twin coil artificial kidney machine for a physician from eastern North Carolina back in 1957-58. Invented by Willem Kolff, MD, of the Netherlands, this kidney machine was one of only...
Raymond Woodrow Postlethwait graduated from Duke University School of Medicine in 1937. He was on house staff at Duke from 1937 to 1939. He became the chief of surgery at the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Durham, N.C.
Frederick Bernheim in a laboratory during the 1970s. Dr. Bernheim was one of the original members of the faculty of the Duke University Hospital and School of Medicine. He served as professor of pharmacology from 1930 until 1974 or 1975.
Formal portrait of Frederick Bernheim from the 1950s. Dr. Bernheim was one of the original members of the faculty of the Duke University Hospital and School of Medicine. He served as professor of pharmacology from 1930 until 1974 or 1975.