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  • Operation under Sterilamp using ultraviolet light

    Description/Abstract: 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...
    Date: 1937

  • D. Gordon Sharp and electron microscope

    Description/Abstract: D. Gordon Sharp (M.A. Duke, 1937 and Ph.D., Duke, 1939) operates the electron camera in a laboratory. "This $18,000 electron microscope which takes pictures of tiny viruses and magnifies them as much as 100,000 times their actual size, has just...
    Date: 1950

  • Clarence Gardner in the emergency room

    Description/Abstract: Dr. Clarence Gardner sews up a patient in the Duke Hospital emergency room. He is assisted by Miss Antoinette Makeley, R.N. The group of young men observing the procedure is likely comprised of medical students or interns. Dr. Clarence Ellsworth...
    Date: undated

  • James H. Semans

    Description/Abstract: James H. Semans, professor of urology in the Dept. of Surgery, served on the Duke faculty for 28 years. In the 1960s Semans, along with his wife Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans, helped to establish the North Carolina School of the Arts in...
    Date: undated

  • Clarence E. Gardner

    Description/Abstract: Dr. Clarence Ellsworth Gardner, Jr., was a member of the original faculty, beginning as professor of surgery in 1930. He later served as chair of the Dept. of Surgery from 1960 to 1964.
    Date: undated

  • Hospital Blood Bank, drawing blood

    Description/Abstract: Physician with a patient at the Duke Hospital Blood Bank. From 1933 to 1940 each division of Duke Hospital maintained its own blood bank, usually on individual wards, making Duke one of the first hospitals in the country to have blood banks....
    Date: 1941

  • William Warner Shingleton

    Description/Abstract: 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.
    Date: undated

  • Dr. James Urbaniak

    Description/Abstract: Portrait of Dr. James Urbaniak, who joined the faculty in 1969 as an Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, became Professor in 1977, and Chief of the Division in 1985, a position he held until 2002.
    Date: undated

  • Dr. Delford Stickel

    Description/Abstract: Portrait of Delford Stickel, who in 1965 performed the first successful kidney transplant in North Carolina and at Duke.
    Date: undated

  • Operating room with ultraviolet lights overhead

    Description/Abstract: Operating room with ultraviolet light, x-ray screen, instrument table, and patient bed prepared for surgery. In 1936, Dr. J. Deryl Hart originated the use of ultraviolet radiation to control airborne infections in surgical operating rooms, a...
    Date: undated