Thelma Ingles came to Duke university in 1944 supported by a United States Public Health Service grant to study the role of the nurse in the clinic. She returned to Duke in 1949 as professor and chair of the Department of Medical-Surgical Nursing at...
Postcard of Yale Medical Library Historical Library. On verso: "The Rotunda, Yale Medical library Dedicated to Harvey Cushing Reproduced for the Associates of the Yale Medical Library." Printed by The Meriden Gravure Company.
Portrait showing a number of soldiers in front of Buckingham Palace. The Queen is on a balcony above them. Portrait drawn by R. Hind and engraved by G. Greatbach. From the collection of Howard A. Kelly, M.D., No. 28.
Publisher: London: The London...
Photograph of the Oxford School of Physiology. Included are Sir Charles Sherrington, Sir Gowland Hopkins, Prof. H. M. Vernon, E. A. Woods, Eustace H. Chiver, “George,” Wilder Penfield, Emile Hohman, Miss Collier, C. F. Krige, Prof. Scott, and W. C....
Photograph of the Nightingale Ward at St. Thomas's Hospital. A number of patients are shown lying in bed. The ward seems to be decorated with garlands. From the collection of Thomas A. Kelly, No. 33.
Published in London.
Photograph of the Nightingale Corner at Johns Hopkins School of Nurses. In the corner are a wheelchair, a statue of Florence Nightingale and some portraits of her. Attached to verso is a letter from E. M. Lawler, Superintendent of Nurses dated December...
Painting of the generals and staff at Sebastopol. Miss Nightingale is on horseback on the right. From a picture by Barlser. From the collection of Howard A. Kelly, M.D., No. 19.
Picture showing a view of the Battle of Inkermann. Drawn by W. H. Kearney and engraved by G. Greatbach. An ornate border includes two cannons (shown underneath the picture). From the collection of Howard A. Kelly, M.D., No. 21.
Publisher: The London...
Rear view of J. Y. Simpson between his son David and Captain Jervay. Manuscript note on verso: "The Backs. A discussion as to whose back was broadest. J. Y. S. had them photographed."
Technicians in the laboratory of Dr. Walter Kempner, professor of medicine. In the foreground is the Warburg apparatus, in which chemical reactions of surviving kidney cells are studies. In the background is a flame photometer, used for determining...
An x-ray technician of Duke Hospital guides an x-ray camera over a patient's body. Duke Hospital's x-ray technician training program was started by Robert J. Reeves in 1930.
Peele graduated from Duke University (A.B., 1929 and M.D., 1934). He served on the house staff of Duke Hospital from 1934 to 1936 and as professor of anatomy from 1939 to 1981.
Portrait of T. Spencer Wells. He is sitting in a chair with his right arm on a book and his hat in his left hand. Engraved by the Swan Electric Engraving Co. Painted by Rudolph Lehmann. Facsimile signature.
Portrait of Sydenham, wearing a lace collar. Engraved by E. Scriven. At bottom "From a picture in the hall of All Souls College, Oxford. Under the superintendence of the Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge. London, published by Charles...
Susan Dees was professor of pediatrics from 1939 to 1978, and chief of the Dept. of Pediatrics, Division of Allergy-Immunology from 1948 to 1974. She established the pediatric allergy training program in the early 1940s.
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.
School of nursing student exiting Baker House. Baker House, located on Trent Drive, was constructed in 1931 and renovated in 1968. The building is contiguous with Duke Clinic. It housed the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology administration,...
Students and faculty of Duke University School of Medicine at the annual student faculty show, where the students put on a musical play lampooning the school and the faculty. The location for that event each year at the time was the Stallion Club, a...
Portrait of Stephen Hales holding a book in his hands entitled "An Account of Some Hydraulic and Hydrostatical Experiments Made On The Blood and Blood Vessels of Animals."
A steam engine train brings building materials to the site of Duke University, the School of Medicine, and Duke Hospital. Hospital construction began on September 1, 1927 and was completed on July 1, 1930. Duke Hospital opened for patients on July 21,...
The first statue to the honor of Florence Nightingale, unveiled by the Duke of Devonshire at Derby. The statue is the work of Countess Feovore Flerchen. From the collection of Howard Kelly, M.D. No. 37.
Statue of Florence Nightingale as The Lady with the Lamp. Statue is in the Florence Nightingale Home, St. Thomas's Hospital, London. Drawn by H. Bonham Carter and engraved by C. H. Jones. From the collection of Howard A. Kelly, M.D., No. 42.
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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 of...
Photograph of St. Thomas Hospital, Lambeth, London erected 1870-1871. The building with the tower is the medical building. A river and several boats are also shown. From the collection of Howard A. Kelly, No. 45.
Publisher: [London] F. F & Co.
Pictures of St. Louis Medical College (left) and Missouri Medical College (right). Both were original sources of the present Washington University School of Medicine.
Ink drawing of a lusty, winged cherub wearing a masterboard and sitting astride a keg marked "Society of Pithotomists, 1897." The cherub holds a stein of beer in one hand and a caduceus in the other and is surrounded by a variety of clutter among which...
Duke Hospital staff of the Social Service Division. The Division of Social Services was founded on September 1, 1937 with the support of Ms. Doris Duke. During World War II, the Social Service Division worked with the American Red Cross to assist...
Sketch showing transformers and special radiation tube installation for operating room ultraviolet lights system installation. In 1936, Dr. J. Deryl Hart originated the use of ultraviolet radiation to control airborne infections in surgical operating...
Sir William Osler with his son Revere (about 2 years of age) on his back, probably about 1898. Inscription: “And on his shoulders, not a lamb, a Kid”!.
Photograph showing Sir William Osler as a child of seven. He stands at the extreme left. Next to him are his three brothers-the Hon. Mr. Justice Featherstone Osler, the late Mr. E. B. Osler, Sir Edmund Osler, and two sisters. The five figures at the...
Photograph of William Osler standing with a walking stick in his right hand. Inscription: “A memory of Canadian Hospital, Cliveden. William Osler 1915-1916”.
Portrait of Frederick Gowland Hopkins, a famous pioneer of biochemical investigation. He shared the 1929 Nobel Prize for medicine. "Triangle Volume V No. 2 July 1961" at head of sheet.
Dr. Osterhout investigates household products in the Duke Poison Control Center. Dr. Shirley K. Osterhout came to Duke University in 1949 as an undergraduate. She obtained her MD from Duke in 1957 and continued in the Department of Pediatrics, working...
The Seeley G. Mudd Building is located at the heart of the Medical Center campus. The building was constructed between 1973 and 1975. It opened in November 1975 and was dedicated May 8, 1976. The Medical Center Library occupies much of the building.