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  • Nurse assists obstetrical patient and baby

    Description/Abstract: Duke nurse, wearing mask, assisting woman with baby.
    Date: 1948

  • 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

  • School of Nursing faculty visiting community agency

    Description/Abstract: Nursing faculty member with baby and two women at community agency.
    Date: 1948

  • Student nurse and instructor take a patient's blood pressure

    Description/Abstract: Phyllis Mertz, a School of Nursing student, assists Ruth Hunter, a Nursing Arts instructor, in taking a patient's blood pressure.
    Date: 1948

  • Plaster room in the Orthopaedic Clinic

    Description/Abstract: Doctors and a nurse prepare a cast on a patient’s arm in the plaster room of the Orthopaedic Clinic. (Left to right) Dr. Warner Wells (A.B., Duke, 1934 and M.D., Duke, 1938; house staff and associate in Surgery from 1938 to 1945), Dr. Laszlo...
    Date: circa 1940

  • 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

  • Nurses care for patients of the 65th General Hospital

    Description/Abstract: Nurses or physicians tend to patients of the 65th General Hospital. The 65th General Hospital served as an affiliated unit of the Duke University School of Medicine during World War II. Authorized on October 17, 1940, the Hospital was headed by...
    Date: undated

  • Nurse with an African-American pediatric patient

    Description/Abstract: A uniformed Duke Hospital nurse gives a bottle to a young African-American girl.
    Date: undated

  • Duke Hospital outpatient clinic

    Description/Abstract: Patients and hospital staff interact in the Duke Hospital outpatient clinic waiting room. Between 1930 to 1940, approximately half a million visits were made to the outpatient clinic (referred to early on as the OPC). By the early 1950s, an...
    Date: circa 1930

  • Nurses attend to the wounded at the 65th General Hospital

    Description/Abstract: Nurses of the 65th General Hospital examine patients' legs. The 65th General Hospital served as an affiliated unit of the Duke University School of Medicine during World War II. Authorized on October 17, 1940, the Hospital was headed by Dr. E. L....
    Date: circa 1942-1944