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  • Wayland E. Hull demonstrating an air flow monitoring machine

    Descripción:
    Hull (seated) observes a Duke Hospital nurse as she breathes through a tube connected to a machine monitoring air flow. Hull used air flow measurements to study oxygen supply and the effects of anesthesia. Hull (Ph.D., Duke, 1946) was an...
    Fecha de Creacion:
    undated

  • Students in laboratory of Dr. Haywood Taylor

    Descripción:
    Haywood with three female students in a laboratory. Daisy Ashley (rear left), Haywood Taylor, Beth Ayers (right). Ashley and Ayers graduated with the class of 1942. Haywood, a member of the original faculty, was a professor of toxicology from 1930...
    Fecha de Creacion:
    circa 1938-1942

  • Sterilizer equipment in Duke Hospital

    Descripción:
    Patient care and dietetics items awaiting sterilization treatment in a sterilizer room at Duke Hospital.
    Fecha de Creacion:
    1930

  • D. Gordon Sharp and electron microscope

    Descripción:
    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...
    Fecha de Creacion:
    1950

  • Operation under Sterilamp using ultraviolet light

    Descripción:
    J. Deryl Hart and Dept. of Surgery surgical team in protective clothing operating on a patient under the Sterilamp, an ultraviolet light source hanging from the operating room ceiling. In 1936, Dr. J. Deryl Hart originated the use of ultraviolet...
    Fecha de Creacion:
    1937

  • Pathologist at a work station in a research laboratory

    Descripción:
    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...
    Fecha de Creacion:
    circa 1948

  • Glen R. Gale in laboratory

    Descripción:
    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...
    Fecha de Creacion:
    1948

  • Student at work in Zoology Dept. laboratory

    Descripción:
    Bob Curry (M.D., Duke, 1943) in the laboratory feeding white mice, which were used in a chigger study.
    Fecha de Creacion:
    circa 1942-1943

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

    Descripción:
    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...
    Fecha de Creacion:
    1946

  • X-ray technology at Duke Hospital

    Descripción:
    Duke Hospital staff member with an x-ray screen in an examination room. Courses in roentgenology and radiology were taught at Duke Hospital as early as 1930 by staff in the hospital's radiology department. The radiology department held weekly...
    Fecha de Creacion:
    undated