School of Medicine students performing the student-faculty show or a mock clinic. The annual student-faculty show is entirely student-run and offers a comedic view of the experiences of a medical student at Duke.
Carlin Graham at work. Graham was a professional photographer for Duke's Medical Art and Illustration division. In 1950 Graham left Duke to head the medical illustration program at Tuskegee University.
The Duke Medical Art and Illustration staff (L-R): Carlin P. Graham, Robert Blake, Raymond Howard, [Dorothy Watkins], Orville “Norrie” Parks, [Claire King], Elon Clark, Evelyn Satterfield Lyons, Henry Floyd Pickett, and Neeley Webster.
Group photograph of the Executive Committee of the School of Medicine, taken in Dr. Forbus' office. The administration of the Duke University Schools of Medicine, Nursing and Health Services, and Duke Hospital was performed, subject to the...
Group photograph of the Executive Committee of the School of Medicine, taken in Dr. Wiley Forbus' office. The administration of the Duke University Schools of Medicine, Nursing and Health Services, and Duke Hospital was performed, subject to the...
This linen postcard comes from a 1945 folder set. The caption reads "D-8--Science Quadrangle, showing School of Medicine in Center, Duke University, Durham, N.C."
Dr. Walter Kempner, founder of the Rice Diet and Professor of Medicine from 1934 to 1972, is shown eating with two Rice Dieters. Dr. Kempner is seated in the center, with his back to the window. Walter Kempner was born in 1903 in Germany. He...
Aerial view of Duke Hospital with the first addition of the Private Diagnostic Clinics completed. Also shows much of undeveloped surrounding area of the city of Durham.
School of Medicine students performing the 1940 student-faculty show, from OPC to CPC. The annual show is entirely student-run and offers a comedic view of the experiences of a medical student at Duke. From L-R: Bill Sellers, Kenneth Brown,...
William A. Withers takes the blood pressure of a female patient at the Duke Private Diagnostic Clinic. William A. Withers served as house staff and fellow from 1937 to 1939.
J. Deryl Hart and Dept. of Surgery surgical team in protective clothing operating on a patient under the Sterilamp, an ultraviolet light source hanging from the operating room ceiling. In 1936, Dr. J. Deryl Hart originated the use of ultraviolet...
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...
Speech in acceptance of the Duke Endowment's gift of buildings for Duke's new medical school and hospital. The speech was delivered by Colonel John Fletcher Bruton on behalf of the Board of Trustees. Bruton delivered this speech during dedication...
Draft of the original admissions requirements for Duke's School of Medicine and correspondence regarding specific requirements and verbiage of the document from Dean Wilburt C. Davison, physics professor Charles William Edwards, and chemistry...
Illustration of a heart in a book. Bob Blake was coordinator of the Division of Medical Illustration within the Duke University School of Medicine. He produced medical illustrations for Duke from about 1940 through the 1970s. (Robert L. Blake...
Safety Observers pictured from left to right: Row 1- Betty Cross, Betty Desrosiers, Clara Harris, Dorothy Grant, Essie Evans, Marilyn Blake, Sandra Williams, Annie Tedder, Rosa Herron; Row 2- Linda Starr, Theodore Lee, Ruth Ellis, Marie Scoggins,...
Photograph showing two men sitting in front of a hyperbaric unit. One man is wearing a headset, and the other man appears to be a staff member. Some instruments are shown in front of the men.
Photograph of a part of a hyperbaric chamber and its control panel. One staff member is seated at the panel, and another is working at the hyperbaric chamber. Photographed by Thad W. Sparks, Duke University Photographer.
Photograph of the inside of a hyperbaric unit. Two staff members (a female and a male) are standing inside the unit. The door of the unit is open. Photographed by Thad W. Sparks, Duke University Photographer.
Photograph of a staff member coming out of a hyperbaric unit. He is wearing surgical attire and a mask. Another man is standing behind him. Several cans lined with plastic are also shown.
Informational pamphlet for patients about the services and treatments at Highland Hospital. Highland Hospital was an institution that treated psychiatric patients in Asheville, North Carolina.
Dr. Osterhout investigates household products in the Duke Poison Control Center. Dr. Shirley K. Osterhout came to Duke University in 1949 as an undergraduate. She obtained her MD from Duke in 1957 and continued in the Department of Pediatrics,...
Dr. Anderson is a professor of ophthalmology at Duke University. Dr. Anderson received training in surgery (1956-1957) and in ophthalmology (1959-1962) at Duke University.
Dr. Hammond joined the Duke University School of Medicine faculty in 1968. He served as chief of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology from 1970 to 1980. In 1980 he became chair...
Edward S. Orgain reading EKG tape, pictured with nurse and patient. Orgain was a professor of medicine from 1934 to 1975. Together with Mary Poston, a bacteriologist, he published extensively on diagnosis and treatment of endocarditis in the...
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...
Charles Johnson came to Duke in 1967 as a fellow in the Division of Endocrinology. He became the one of the first African American faculty members in the Duke School of Medicine in 1970.
Drs. Ewald Busse, chair of the Department of Psychiatry (1953-1974); Thomas DeArman Kinney, chair of the Department of Pathology (1960-1975); William G. Anlyan, chancellor emeritus of Duke University Medical Center (1964-1969); Barnes Woodhall,...
The Duke Eye Center is also known as the Joseph A.C. Wadsworth Building. Dr. Wadsworth was the first chair of the Dept. of Ophthalmology at Duke, serving from 1965 until 1983.
Dr. Louis Sullivan, Secretary of Health & Human Services during the H.W. Bush administration, seated at table with Dr. David Sabiston in the background. Dr. Sullivan was the keynote speaker for this meeting.
Duke Hospital seamstress works at her station. The Duke Hospital Laundry department handled the cleaning of linens and uniforms as well as the mending and patching of damaged items until 2004 when Duke Health System negotiated a long-term service...
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...
Veterans Administration Hospital staff. (Front) Alexander Wood, William Tucker, William Deiss, Herb Sieker; (back) John Fulton (?), E. Harvey Estes, Jr., Malcolm Tyor, Henry McIntosh, Mark Bogdinoff.
Dr. Onyekwere E. Akwari, a Nigerian-American, was the first African-American surgeon at Duke University. A strong advocate for expanding and celebrating diversity at the university, Akwari supported the introduction of Duke’s women’s and minority...
The Duke University Medical Center Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) was an automated system that allowed people to travel between Duke Hospital (Duke North) and Duke Clinics (Duke South). The system was launched in 1979 and discontinued in 2009.
Dr. Young was a house staff and faculty member in the Department of Surgery (1948-1950). Dr. Will Camp Sealy, Dr. Ivan Brown, and Dr. Glenn Young were among the first to determine the benefits of patient cooling by using hypothermic...
Medical illustration of the aorta, thoracic duct. Bob Blake was coordinator of the Division of Medical Illustration within the Duke University School of Medicine. He produced medical illustrations for Duke from about 1942 through the 1970s....
Dr. Ross helped organize the Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Duke University School of Medicine, where he was acting chair of the department from 1930 to 1931 and professor from 1930 to 1952.
Dr. Anlyan came to Duke University in 1949, where he completed residency training in general and thoracic surgery at Duke University School of Medicine between 1949 and 1955. In 1955 he passed the examinations of the American board of thoracic...
Dr. Frank Lanni in laboratory mixing an "inhibitor" with cells to see to what extent the inhibitor prevents the virus from clinging to cells. Lanni was a Research Associate in the Department of Surgery who worked with Dr. Joseph Beard in the 1940s.