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  • Patients waiting in Duke Hospital public dispensary

    Description/Abstract: Patients seated along a wall in the public dispensary. Hospital staff, physicians and nurses are also visible.
    Date: circa 1940

  • Dr. Patricia Sills Thornhill playing baseball at the annual Duke Hospital staff picnic

    Description/Abstract: Thornhill is at bat. Onlookers and parked cars are in the background. Thornhill (A.B., Duke, 1936 and M.D., 1940) served on the house staff from 1940 to 1942.
    Date: 1940

  • Dietetics staff preparing food in the kitchen

    Description/Abstract: Two female members of the Duke University Hospital dietetics staff prepare food in the kitchen. The School of Dietetics, in cooperation with the School of Nursing, offered internships from 1930 to 1972.
    Date: circa 1930

  • Hospital administration interns

    Description/Abstract: Duke Hospital administration internships lasted two years and consisted of supervised responsibility in the major administrative areas of the hospital. Hospital administrative internships were inspired by Dr. Michael M. Davis' Hospital...
    Date: 1948

  • Private Diagnostic Clinic outpatient registration

    Description/Abstract: Two patients registering at a Duke Hospital outpatient clinic of the Private Diagnostic Clinic. The Private Diagnostic Clinic (PDC) was organized on September 15, 1931 to coordinate the diagnostic studies and to give better care for the...
    Date: circa 1945

  • Dietetics staff checking over food

    Description/Abstract: Dietetics staff check over food in the main kitchen before it is sent out to the Hospital wards. The School of Dietetics, in cooperation with the School of Nursing, offered internships from 1930 to 1972.
    Date: circa 1930

  • Patient in respirator, with nurse

    Description/Abstract: A patient lies in an early tank respirator, often referred to as an "iron lung." Respirators were used primarily as treatment for polio. The first tank respirator, credited to Philip Drinker and Louis Shaw, was developed in 1929.
    Date: 1951

  • Reba N. Hobgood

    Description/Abstract: Reba N. Hobgood, social worker and original staff member of Duke Hospital, works with patients at the desk of the outpatient social services division. The Social Services Division was founded in 1937.
    Date: circa 1930

  • Duke University Hospital Patient Room

    Description/Abstract: Patient room at Duke University Hospital.
    Date: 1981

  • Duke Hospital patient room

    Description/Abstract: An early single-patient hospital room in Duke Hospital.
    Date: undated