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  • Dept. of Surgery house staff

    Description/Abstract: Uniformed male house staff, interns, or faculty of the Dept. of Surgery.
    Date: circa 1943-1946

  • Warner Lee Wells

    Description/Abstract: Warner Lee Wells received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Duke University (A.B., 1934; M.D., 1938). He was a member of the house staff of Duke Hospital and an associate in the Dept. of Surgery (1938-1945).
    Date: 1941

  • Joseph Willis Beard and Dorothy Beard with chickens used for virus research

    Description/Abstract: Dr. Joseph Beard and Dorothy Beard worked together to isolate and identify cancer viruses that cause leukemia in chickens. Joseph W. Beard was professor of surgery from 1937 to 1973.
    Date: undated

  • Arthur B. Cecil, Jr.

    Description/Abstract: Arthur B. Cecil, Jr. was an assistant in surgery and on the Duke house staff of the Dept. of Pathology from 1943 to 1944 and 1946 to 1950.
    Date: 1943

  • Keith Sanford Grimson

    Description/Abstract: Keith Sanford Grimson was an associate professor of surgery from 1942 to 1976. He conducted research in the nonsurgical treatment of hypertension.
    Date: undated

  • Barnes Woodhall

    Description/Abstract: Dr. Woodhall was professor and chair of the Division of Neurological Surgery and dean of the School of Medicine at Duke University from 1960 to 1964.
    Date: undated

  • 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

  • Dept. of Surgery staff wearing clothing to protect them during operations under ultraviolet lights

    Description/Abstract: 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...
    Date: undated

  • Surgical house staff

    Description/Abstract: Duke Hospital house staff from the Department of Surgery. Julian Deryl Hart was chair of the Dept. of Surgery during this time. The majority of the individuals in this photograph were on house staff between 1944 and 1950. (From left to right, Row...
    Date: circa 1944-1945

  • 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