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  • 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

  • Dr. Richard B. Raney with a patient

    Description/Abstract: 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...
    Date: 1939

  • Private Diagnostic Clinic patient waiting area

    Description/Abstract: Patients and staff in a Duke Hospital Private Diagnostic Clinic waiting area. The PDC was organized on September 15, 1931 to coordinate the diagnostic studies and to give better care for the complicated problems arising in the examination of...
    Date: 1940

  • Patient waiting room

    Description/Abstract: A group of African-American patrons sit in the waiting room at Duke Hospital. The sign on the pillar reads, "New Patients Colored Register Here."
    Date: circa 1940-1949

  • 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

  • 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

  • Clinical care at Duke Hospital

    Description/Abstract: A hospital staff member confers with a patient family, including a small child.
    Date: circa 1930