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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

  • D. Gordon Sharp and electron microscope

    Description/Abstract: D. Gordon Sharp (M.A. Duke, 1937 and Ph.D., Duke, 1939) operates the electron camera in a laboratory. "This $18,000 electron microscope which takes pictures of tiny viruses and magnifies them as much as 100,000 times their actual size, has just...
    Date: 1950

  • D. Gordon Sharp and electron microscope

    Description/Abstract: D. Gordon Sharp (M.A. Duke, 1937 and Ph.D., Duke, 1939) operates the electron camera in a laboratory. "This $18,000 electron microscope which takes pictures of tiny viruses and magnifies them as much as 100,000 times their actual size, has just...
    Date: 1950

  • Pathologist at a work station in a research laboratory

    Description/Abstract: Pathologist working with a specimen. According to a news article, "in only 2-10 minutes pathologists can report to waiting surgeons whether or not a patient on the operating table has cancer. Here a pathologist uses a 'microtome' to freeze a...
    Date: circa 1948

  • Glen R. Gale in laboratory

    Description/Abstract: Glen R. Gale using a microscope to study organisms in a laboratory. At age 19, Gale discovered an unnamed organism with remarkable killing powers against dangerous fungi. After graduation from Duke University in 1953 (Ph.D.), Gale went on to serve...
    Date: 1948

  • John Hickam measuring blood gases

    Description/Abstract: Hickam, a professor of medicine at Duke University from 1947 to 1957, uses a machine to measure blood gases.
    Date: circa 1947

  • Patient undergoing an x-ray examination

    Description/Abstract: Patient laying on x-ray examination table with machinery above her. Duke Hospital's x-ray technician training program was started by Robert J. Reeves in 1930.
    Date: circa 1946

  • X-ray technician Sudie "Ma" Whitfield using equipment

    Description/Abstract: Whitfield was an x-ray technician during the 1940s. Duke Hospital's x-ray technician training program was started by Robert J. Reeves in 1930.
    Date: circa 1946

  • X-ray technologists Sudie "Ma" Whitfield, Colleen Cooper, and Lyle Upchurch

    Description/Abstract: Cooper and Upchurch watch as Whitfield demonstrates use of x-ray equipment. Cooper and Whitfield were technologists at Duke during the 1940s. Upchurch was employed with Watts Hospital in Durham, N.C. Duke Hospital's x-ray technician training...
    Date: 1946

  • Student at work in Zoology Dept. laboratory

    Description/Abstract: Bob Curry (M.D., Duke, 1943) in the laboratory feeding white mice, which were used in a chigger study.
    Date: circa 1942-1943