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  • Austin and Lee burr hole system. USA. 1956.

    Description/Abstract: Austin and Lee burr hole system. USA. 1956. The basic design consisted of a device mounted on a burr hole in the skull. It allowed guidance at various angular adjustments. By passing the needle through the trephine after attaching the socket, AP...
    Date: 1956

  • Avery Labs stimulator system

    Description/Abstract: Avery Labs stimulator system. Farmingdale, NY. 1970. 6 instruments: 2 Brain and spinal cord stimulators. 1cutaneous, 1 transcutaneous and 2 neuro. The Avery Electrical Brain and Spinal Cord Stimulator was built by Avery Labs in Farmingdale, New...
    Date: 1970

  • Bertrand rectilinear system. Canada. 1953.

    Description/Abstract: Bertrand rectilinear system. Canada. 1953. Dr. Claude Bertrand, the French Canadian neurosurgeon, introduced his pneumotaxic guide in 1953 for the treatment of Parkinson's disease. It was based on the orthogonal system combined with rectolinear...
    Date: 1953

  • Early operating room

    Description/Abstract: 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

  • Enema kit

    Description/Abstract: Ivory-tip brass enema syringe. 19th century. No key. Wooden box - velvet lined.
    Date: 19th Century

  • Grass stimulator system

    Description/Abstract: Grass stimulator system. Quincy, MA: Grass Medical Instruments, 1970. 5 instruments. Built by Grass Medical Instruments of Quincy, Massachusetts, these instruments were used to stimulate the brain and spinal cord.
    Date: 1970

  • Heimberger arc system. USA.

    Description/Abstract: Heimberger arc system. USA. 1972. This arc system was made in 1972 by Dr. Robert Heimberger, professor of Neurosurgery at Indiana University Medical Center. The instrument was unique in that the patient was placed in the instrument in the lateral...
    Date: 1972

  • Inside view of the Duke Hospital surgical instrument shop

    Description/Abstract: 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/Abstract: 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

  • MR/CT Compatible arc-phantom target system

    Description/Abstract: MR/CT Compatible arc-phantom target system. Burlington, MA: Radionics. 1987. Built by Eric R. Cosman, PhD, Theodore S. Roberts, MD & Trent H. Wells, Jr.. Known as the CRW System.
    Date: 1987

  • Narabayashi arc system. Japan.

    Description/Abstract: Narabayashi arc system. Japan. 1950. The original instruments were built in 1950. The current model on display was used to treat Parkinson's disease.
    Date: 1950

  • Nashold arc system. USA.

    Description/Abstract: Nashold arc system. USA. 1969. Based on the arc principle, this instrument was unique since it was made specifically to lesion the cerebellar dentate nucleus. Designed by Drs. Blaine Nashold and Graham Slaughter and John Harrison, an Australian...
    Date: 1969

  • Radionics radio frequency type lesion generator

    Description/Abstract: Radionics radio frequency type lesion generator. Burlington, MA: Radionics, Inc., 1970. Built by Radionics, Inc. of Burlington, Massachusetts, this instrument was used for making deep brain and spinal cord lesions.
    Date: 1970

  • Rand and Malcolm radiolucent surgical head holder

    Description/Abstract: Rand and Malcolm radiolucent surgical head holder. USA. 1988. This radiolucent surgical head holder stabilized the patient while allowing direct radiographic visualization of the surgical anatomy without compromising view angles or x-ray geometry....
    Date: 1988

  • Rand Stereotactic Instrument for Yttrium Hypophysectomy

    Description/Abstract: Rand Stereotactic Instrument for Yttrium Hypophysectomy. Los Angeles: Trent H. Wells of the Mechanical Development Co., 1953. This instrument was used to implant yttrium 90 oxide into the pituitary gland. Probes were introduced by way of the nasal...
    Date: undated

  • Rand-Urban stereotactic arc system. USA.

    Description/Abstract: Rand-Urban stereotactic arc system. USA. 1956. This stereotactic instrument was designed as an arc system in order to place the patient's head in various positions. It's clinical application of studies on stereotactically implanted electrodes in...
    Date: 1956

  • Reichert arc system. Germany.

    Description/Abstract: Reichert arc system. Germany. 1951. This arc-radius system used Cartesian and polar coordinates. The instrument's large base allowed the brain target to be approached from any point on the skull. Modified in 1965 by Reichert and Dr. Mundinger, the...
    Date: 1951

  • Staff in Duke Hospital's surgical instrument shop

    Description/Abstract: 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

  • Surgical Saw

    Description/Abstract: 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

  • Talairach rectilinear stereotactic system. France.

    Description/Abstract: Talairach rectilinear stereotactic system. France 1949. This rectilinear orthogonial instrument consisted of a heavy frame and fixation pins. Two lateral grids for alignment of the x-ray beam were placed at a distance from the frame to reduce...
    Date: 1949