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...
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...
In the late 1920s, J. Deryl Hart invented a variable pressure bed (or air mattress) to ease patient’s bed sores. Hart patented many of his inventions, which also included a pneumatic bed, an operating room supply table, and a surgical basin with a...
At the center, a line of men and women can be seen in front of a large piece of medical equipment. A nurse is using the piece of equipment on a male patient, while another nurse stands behind her.
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...
Cooper and Upchurch watch as Whitfield demonstrates use of x-ray equipment. Cooper and Whitfield were technologists at Duke during the 1940s. Upchurch was employed with Watts Hospital in Durham, N.C. Duke Hospital's x-ray technician training...
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...
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...
Dr. Joseph Beard and laboratory equipment. Dr. Beard was professor of surgery from 1937 to 1973. Beard and his wife Dorothy were an internationally prominent cancer team. In 1946 Beard became the James B. Duke professor of surgery and was...
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...
Dr. Richard B. Raney fits a neck brace onto an African-American patient in the Orthopaedic Clinic. A nurse assists. Raney served on the house staff of Duke Hospital from 1934 to 1952. Dr. R.B. Raney authored "Primer on Prevention of Deformities in...
Hospital staff, patient, and equipment in an early operating room of Duke Hospital. Two female members of the Duke Hospital staff are wearing surgical masks.
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...