Ernst Peschel was assistant professor of medicine from 1947 to 1972. He wrote extensively on the health implications of colleague Walter Kempner's Rice Diet program.
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...
(Left to right) Richard Sherman Lyman, Wilburt Cornell Davidson, Robert Lee Flowers, Adolph Meyer, Robert Sproul Carroll, and Frederic Moir Hanes. Lyman was chair of the Department of Neuropsychiatry at Duke from 1940 to 1951. Davidson was Dean of...
Hanes came to Duke University in 1931 as a member of the original faculty. He served as professor of neurology and as the Florence McAlister Professor of Medicine (1930-1946). He was chair of the Department of Medicine from 1933 to 1946. In 1937,...
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...
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 pre-penicillin era. In 1945 he founded Duke's Cardiovascular Disease...
James Paisley Hendrix was an associate professor of pharmacology and therapeutics from 1938 to 1972. He became a leading specialist in internal medicine.
Eugene Anson Stead, Jr. was professor of medicine and chair of the Dept. of Medicine at Duke University from 1947 to 1967. He was a Lt. Col. with the 65th General Hospital between wars and helped start the Cardiovascular Teaching and Training...
Portrait of Dr. Joseph Greenfield. Throughout his career, Dr. Greenfield held various positions at the Duke University Medical Center, including chief of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center's Cardiology Section (1963-1983), chief of Duke...