Walter Kempner was born in 1903 in Germany. He joined Duke in 1934 as a member of the Department of Medicine. Kempner was interested in the effect of diet on various diseases including hypertension and diabetes. Observing that those diseases were...
Portrait of Roux wearing spectacles, and sitting with his arms crossed. Facsimile signature. Photographed by Adolf Eckstein.
Publisher: Berlin: W. Mohren str. 8.
Portrait of William Harvey, M.D., seated and wearing a skull cap. Engraved by E. Scriven. From the original picture by C. Jansen in the possession of the Royal Society.
Dr. Young was a house staff and faculty member in the Department of Surgery (1948-1950). Dr. Will Camp Sealy, Dr. Ivan Brown, and Dr. Glenn Young were among the first to determine the benefits of patient cooling by using hypothermic...
Portrait of Vincenz Preissnitz. He is surrounded by a circular border showing trees, several angels, and other scenes. Drawn from life by Ruprecht and printed by Johann Hofelich. Facsimile signature. The number "840" appears at the lower left.
One of a series of 11 sketches for his painting FLAK painted while a patient at the 65th General Hospital in August 1944. Given personally to Dr. Wilburt Cornell Davison 2 October 1959. Each sketch is signed by Beresford.
Photograph of a part of a hyperbaric chamber and its control panel. One staff member is seated at the panel, and another is working at the hyperbaric chamber. Photographed by Thad W. Sparks, Duke University Photographer.
Veterans Administration Hospital staff. (Front) Alexander Wood, William Tucker, William Deiss, Herb Sieker; (back) John Fulton (?), E. Harvey Estes, Jr., Malcolm Tyor, Henry McIntosh, Mark Bogdinoff.
Picture of Vanderbilt Medical School. A horse drawn carriage is shown near the building steps and two people are shown in the foreground.
Publisher: Nashville, Tennessee.
Oil portrait of Valentine Mott, M.D. who was a pioneer vascular surgeon famous for ligation of great vessels for aneurysm. He was considered the leading American surgeon of the first half of the nineteenth century.
Picture showing Dr. Charcot giving a lecture and demonstration. A hysterical woman patient is being supported directly to his left. His lecture is being attended by a number of people, whose names are given at the bottom of the picture. Painted by...
Portrait of a group of women. Two women have babies. Drawn by P. Kauffmann and engraved by Duesnes. At bottom of page: "Alexis Clerc. -Hyg. et Med. -Ed. Jules Rouff."
Completed ultraviolet lights system hanging from the operating room ceiling. In 1936, Dr. J. Deryl Hart originated the use of ultraviolet radiation to control airborne infections in surgical operating rooms, a technique that became widely accepted...