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...
Rand-Urban stereotactic arc system. USA. 1956. This stereotactic instrument was designed as an arc system in order to place the patient's head in various positions. It's clinical application of studies on stereotactically implanted electrodes in...
Austin and Lee burr hole system. USA. 1956. The basic design consisted of a device mounted on a burr hole in the skull. It allowed guidance at various angular adjustments. By passing the needle through the trephine after attaching the socket, AP...
Volume 1, numbers 13-14; February 1956; April 1956. Volume 2, numbers 1-4; June 1956; August 1956; October 1956; December 1956. Published bimonthly by Duke Hospital and the Duke Hospital Women's Auxiliary for Duke Hospital employees, staff,...
Volume 1, numbers 6-11; February 1955; April 1955; June 1955; August 1955; October 1955; December 1955. Numbers 6-11 should be 7-12; renumbered in pencil on issues. Published bimonthly by Duke Hospital and the Duke Hospital Women's Auxiliary for...
Volume 4, numbers 6-8; February 1958; April 1958; June 1958. Volume 5, numbers 1-2; October 1958; December 1958. Published bimonthly by Duke University Medical Center and the Duke Hospital Women's Auxiliary for Duke Hospital employees, staff,...
Volume 5, numbers 3-5; February 1959; April 1959; June 1959. Volume 6, numbers 1-2; October 1959; December 1959. Published bimonthly by Duke University Medical Center and the Duke Hospital Women's Auxiliary for Duke Hospital employees, staff,...
Volume 3, numbers 1-3; February 1957; April 1957; June 1957. Volume 4, number 4-5; August 1957; November 1957. Numbers 1-3 in Volume 4 do not exist; Volume 4 was originally a labeling mistake corrected on the first two issues in pencil, but...
Duke University Hospital Library reading room with only a few readers. Photographed by Walter E. Shackelford.
Durham, NC: Walter E. Shackelford, Custom Photography
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.
Mrs. Semans and Thomas M. Simkins, Curator of rare books at Perkins Library, in the library of her home before the Trent Collection was moved to the Duke University Hospital Library. The case with the ivory manikins is in the foreground and the...
Douglas Grant Lochhead, librarian, in the Kipling Room of the MacDonald Memorial Library of Dalhousie University.
Publisher: Halifax, Nova Scotia: Wetmore Photo
The newly constructed Trent Room in the Duke University Hospital Library showing the ivory anatomical manikins, apothecary jars, bronze ecorche and ivory skeleton. View 5.
The newly constructed Trent Room in the Duke University Hospital Library showing the ivory anatomical manikins, apothecary jars, bronze ecorche and ivory skeleton. View 3.
The newly constructed Trent Room in the Duke University Hospital Library showing the ivory anatomical manikins, apothecary jars, bronze ecorche and ivory skeleton. View 4.
Mrs. Semans and Thomas M. Simkins, Curator of rare books at Perkins Library, in the library of her home before the Trent Collection was moved to the Duke University Hospital Library. The case with the ivory manikins is in the foreground and the...
Mrs. Semans and Thomas M. Simkins, Curator of rare books at Perkins Library, in the library of her home before the Trent Collection was moved to the Duke University Hospital Library. The case with the ivory manikins is in the foreground and the...
Mrs. Semans and Thomas M. Simkins, curator of rare books at Perkins Library, in the library of her home before the Trent Collection was moved to the Duke University Hospital Library. The case with the ivory manikins is in the foreground and the...
Bookplate: Physician examines with a stethoscope the chest of a young woman reclining in bed; another young woman stands next to her with great concern.
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: Bearded scholar reading in a grape arbor supported by doric columns. Foxglove growing at left. Greek inscription on cross beam [Proverbs 8:21].
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: 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: 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: 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."
Dr. Wilburt Davison with two medical students in the Duke University Hospital Library. They are examining a portrait of William Harvey and looking at items from the Trent Collection.
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 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: Three surgeons operate in front of a large open book bearing the text "Segvi il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." A serpent twines around a goblet to form a caduceus.
Bookplate: A nude woman kneels holding onto the staff of Aesculapius with a serpent. She wraps her billowing cloak around a young boy with his arm in a sling.
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...
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.