The Küntscher nail is an internal fixation device used to maintain the position of the fracture fragments during healing. Dr. Gerhard Küntscher pioneered this method in 1939 and it was used during WWII to quickly heal soldiers. This particular nail was...
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...
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.
Physical Therapy faculty and staff in the old gym area. Front row, left to right: William Schmidt, Helen Kaiser, Carolyn Burnett, Wilma Abrams, Eleanor Flanagan, Beth Usher, Connie Jenks, Robert Federchuck; Back row, left to right: Lois Perkins,...
Building floorplan layout of Duke Hospital in 1951 showing the wards, entrances, three floor levels, and office suites. (From Duke Hospital Information for Patients brochure, 1951.)
Carl Rogers was part of the original staff of Duke Hospital. He was known as the much beloved and admired "right hand" man of School of Medicine dean Wilburt C. Davison, who called him his "assistant dean."
Picture of a man lying on an operating table. A doctor is sawing into his chest and standing on a ladder. A nurse and another attendant are also present. Pen sketch by by Rogerio Ribeiro. Zincograph by Marques Abreu.
Kymograph. Electric. 1950s. Brass drums mounted on teak base. Instrument used to measure and graphically record physiological responses: blood pressure, pulse, respiration, muscle contraction, nerve impulses, etc.
Heart-lung machine with heat exchanger and experimental pieces, including left to right: two unidentified parts, Blood Filter, Mayo type Blood Filter, Blood Pressure Gauges, Brown Heat Exchanger, Kay-Cross type of Disc Blood Oxygenator An experimental...
Duke University Hospital Library reading room with only a few readers. Photographed by Walter E. Shackelford.
Durham, NC: Walter E. Shackelford, Custom Photography
Bookplate: An elderly man in a long coat examines the tongue of a mask. A table with instruments and books is to his right. Curieux es Arts. Artiste es Cures.
Bookplate: A young man holds a jar aloft. To his lower right and left are heraldic shields of Hohenfeld and Mainbernheim, respectively. On upper left and right are anatomic cross-sections.
A tree serves as a caduceus with a serpent wound around the trunk. The branches are hands, one holding a flower, another a globe. At the top is an eye.
Bookplate: A large long-beaked bird holds a bouquet of flowers, including foxglove and lily-of-the-valley, in its right claw. The left claw grasps a serpent. The image in inscribed inside a circle.
Bookplate: Framed by an elaborate cartouche, a serpent is wound around a heart to form a caduceus. Below the cartouche is a circle divided into equal quarters; in each section is either an animal or a barrel.
Bookplate: A woman is seated in a large armchair holding a child on her lap. The doctor in a white coat leans forward and looks in the child's mouth. A desk lamp with a caduceus base illuminates an open book in the foreground and a book case with...
Bookplate: A surgeon operates in the background. The grim reaper is in the foreground. A book is open to an image of a snake curled around a chalice to form a caduceus.
Bookplate: Young girl with a flower in her right hand sits on a grassy hillside. Against a mountain backdrop two children carry an oversized crutch. An arch of roses frames the scene with a serpent and bowl on the right and an owl and books below.
Bookplate: Inscribed in a circle is a male physician examining a female patient's eye. Below is a caduceus superimposed over the letters "R.L." against a backdrop of books and several onion-domed buildings.
Bookplate: In a medieval interior, an elderly bearded man in long robes tries on spectacles. Another bearded man sits at a table offering other spectacles.
Bookplate: A physician examines a flask of urine while taking the pulse of a woman. Another woman looks on. Composition inspired by a Jan Steen painting.
Bookplate: Winged Caduceus with two serpents inside an oval wreath, flanked by books. An oak branch with acorns is laid across a third book lying beneath the wreath.
Bookplate: Naked male infant standing atop a pillar urinating into a test tube attached by a clamp to a stand. Around the stand and test tube is wound a snake.
Bookplate: Within a triangle a man kneels before a fire emerging from a burning skull. Around the perimeter is a serpent, medical instruments, and "Mein Buch von der Lichte."
Bookplate: Physician in robes holds in his left hand a large urine flask for a crowd of four men to examine. One man is on crutches with a bandaged right leg.
Bookplate: A woman rests her left hand on the trunk of a conifer as she tilts her head back to look straight up into the branches. Her right hand is cupped at her right ear. Several birds are visible.
Bookplate: Aesculapius with staff in a medallion surrounded by a border with a stag pursued by a hunter with gun, a chemical retort, and a raven. On verso is 04047.
Bookplate: A gowned trio works in an operating room. Behind them is a profile of a head of a large skeleton, inside of which is a seated woman pointing to a location in the brain.
Bookplate: Seated Eastern male in ethnic dress in a medallion around which is motto: Labeur est mon desduyt. Below two tapeworms form a holder enclosing a mosquito on a pin.
Bookplate: A crowned serpent, curled around a caduceus, decorates the elaborate facade of a "gingerbread" house. Patients ring the respective bells of Dr. Oskar Lerperger, an ophthalmologist, and Dr. Anna Lerperger, a pediatrician.
Bookplate: From top to bottom: left profile of warrior in helmet, serpent twined around goblet to form a caduceus, x-ray of a ribcage, esophageal procedure.