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  • Early operating room

    Description:
    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.
    Date:
    circa 1930-1934

  • Staff in Duke Hospital's surgical instrument shop

    Description:
    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...
    Date:
    undated

  • Inside view of the Duke Hospital surgical instrument shop

    Description:
    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...
    Date:
    undated

  • J. Deryl Hart with wash basin

    Description:
    Hart came to Duke University in 1929 as a member of the original faculty of Duke Hospital. In 1929, Hart initiated the Private Diagnostic Clinic plan with Frederic Moir Hanes. He served as chair of the Private Diagnostic Clinic and later as...
    Date:
    1966

  • Surgical Saw

    Description:
    Surgical saw with elaborately tooled frame handle. It is displayed with a copy of Gersdorff's "Feldbuch der Wundtartzney" which has been opened to an illustration of a surgeon using a similar saw.
    Date:
    undated