Scarificators were used in blood letting and cupping. They feature several lancets operated by a spring to make light incisions. This particular scarificator belonged to Guy Odom, MD.
Portrait of Santorio Santorio. He is sitting in a wooden structure in front of a table. Santorio pioneered in studying metabolism and placed physiology on a quantitative basis.
Portrait of Samuel Thomas Soemmerring, member of the Academy of Sciences and Professor of Medicine at Munich. Drawn by Bender and engraved by Ambroise Tardieu. Text in French.
Dr. Katz is former professor and chair of the Dept. of Pediatrics (1969-1999) and a researcher in vaccine policy development and pediatric HIV/AIDS care.
Samel E. Upchurch was a member of the Duke Hospital house staff and an associate in surgery from 1933 to 1945. He was also a member of the 65th General Hospital as assistant chief of surgical service and group consultant in plastic surgery.
Portrait of Russell Dicks, a professor of pastoral care, the director of clinical pastoral training, and chaplain at Duke University Hospital from 1948-1958.
Parker was a member of the house staff of Duke Hospital from 1946 to 1947. After completing his residency, Parker went into private practice. He returned to Duke University in 1953 as a professor and later became chair of the Department of Obstetrics...
Roscoe Graham organizes potato chips. He began July 25, 1920, as a trainee butcher at Duke Medical Center. He went on to work as a stockroom attendant, food service worker I and food service aide senior before his promotion to food service supervisor...
Robert Randolph Jones was a member of the original faculty of the School of Medicine and Duke Hospital. He served as house staff and associate professor of surgery from 1930 to 1941. In 1941, he was fatally shot by a psychiatric patient who was...
Stecher sitting at his desk, holding a pen, with a blank notepad and an open journal in front of him. Photographed by Rebman Photo Service, Inc. Manuscript note on verso: "Trent lecturer 1963."
Portrait of Stecher, wearing a pinstripe suit. Presentation inscription: "To my old friend Henry Schuman with kindest regards Robert W. Stecher November 8 1957." Photographed by W. P. Bruning.
Portrait of Robert Koch sitting, resting his head on his left hand, with his left arm propped on a table. K. Fechner, photographer. Numbered 4342.
Publisher: Berlin: Photographische Gesellschaft.
Robert James Reeves was a member of the original faculty. He served as professor of radiology from 1930 to 1968 and as first chair of the Dept. of Radiology from 1930 to 1965. He was in the reserve unit of the United States Public Health Service and...
Dr. Robert J. Lefkowitz is a James B. Duke Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator in the Department of Biochemistry at Duke University Medical Center.
Portrait of Robert Gooch seated in a chair and facing left. Among the books shown on a nearby table is a volume by William Harvey. Painted and engraved by John Linnell.
Chambers graduated from Duke University (B.S. 1944) and the School of Medicine (M.D. 1945). He was a member of the Duke Hospital house staff and a fellow in the Department of Pathology from 1944 to 1945.
Dr. Ross helped organize the Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Duke University School of Medicine, where he was acting chair of the department from 1930 to 1931 and professor from 1930 to 1952.
(Left to right) Richard Sherman Lyman, Wilburt Cornell Davidson, Robert Lee Flowers, Adolph Meyer, Robert Sproul Carroll, and Frederic Moir Hanes. Lyman was chair of the Department of Neuropsychiatry at Duke from 1940 to 1951. Davidson was Dean of the...
Lyman received his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (1921). He worked in Leningrad with Ivan P. Pavlov in the Department of Physiology at the Institute of Experimental Medicine (1930-1931). His appointments include...
Portrait of Richard Owen standing with a large bone in his left hand. Facsimile signature. At bottom "Hunterian Professor, Royal College of Surgeons of London."
Publisher: D. Bogue, Fleet Street.
Portrait of Richard Lower wearing a squared collar. Lower was a pioneer in blood transfusion, and showed that blood changed color when passing through the lungs.
Portrait of Rene Descartes sitting at a desk with a pen in his right hand and several books on a table in front of him. Drawn by Tacquand and engraved by Gartte.
Portrait of Reginald Carter, who joined the Duke Physician Assistant Program in 1972 as a teacher. From 1984 to 1999 he served as Program Director and Division Chief for PA Education within the Department of Community and Family Medicine. In 2001 he...
Postcard of Yale Medical Library reading room, with people sitting at tables. On verso: "Reading room, Yale Medical library Reproduced for the Associates of the Yale Medical Library." Printed by The Meriden Gravure Company.
Raymond Woodrow Postlethwait graduated from Duke University School of Medicine in 1937. He was on house staff at Duke from 1937 to 1939. He became the chief of surgery at the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Durham, N.C.