Postcard of a pharmacy, with medicine jars on shelves. On verso: "A Connecticut Pharmacy, mid-19th century, Yale Medical Library, Gift of Edward Clark Streeter, Reproduced for Associates of the Yale Medical Library." Printed by The Meriden Gravure...
Photograph of a bust of Florence Nightingale at the Memorial located at the Royal United Service Institution. From the collection of Howard A. Kelly, M.D., No. 39.
Published in London.
A woman in an early nursing uniform attends a sick male patient. The setting seems to be in a hospital because the beds are surrounded by curtains and written orders hang above the beds.
Photograph of a staff member coming out of a hyperbaric unit. He is wearing surgical attire and a mask. Another man is standing behind him. Several cans lined with plastic are also shown.
Portrait of Albert John Ochsner wearing glasses, in three-quarters right profile. Photographed by Adolf Eckstein. Facsimile signature.
Publisher: Berlin-Charlottenburg.
Pare in three-quarter right profile, engraved by W. Holl. From the original picture in "L'Ecole de Medecine" at Paris. Under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
Portrait of Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States from page 17 of an anonymous album. The only non-physician included in this anonymous album.
Part of an album of 23 small formal photographs of physicians.
Portrait of Adolf Lorenz in full beard and mustache. Facsimile signature. The number "2083" is shown in the right hand corner of the sheet.
Publisher: Berlin-Charlottenburg: Adolf Eckstein's Verlag.
Aerial view of the newly completed Duke University School of Medicine and Duke Hospital. Nearby residential neighborhoods and west campus buildings are also visible.
Four African American LPN (licensed practical nursing) students and a Duke University Hospital staff member or nursing instructor gathered around a table. The students are enrolled in a cooperative program between Durham city schools, State Vocational...
Pediatric patients and their families waiting for treatment in the pediatrics ward of Duke Hospital. The mural on the left side of the photograph contains the images of Wilburt Cornell Davison (conductor) and other faculty or staff.
Photograph of Albert Calmette, who was involved in immunological research to prevent tuberculosis infection and was the first to introduce active immunization against tuberculosis. He was a pupil of Louis Pasteur. "Triangle Volume VI No. 2 July 1963"...
Portrait of Victor Albrecht von Haller sitting by a table, with his right hand resting on a book on the table. Painted by T. R. Studer v. W., engraved by I. I. Haid.
Signed photograph of Aldo Castellani. Inscription reads “To Dr. Daniel T. Smith, with very kind regards and best wishes, Aldo Castellani, 20th Oct. 1956.”
Portrait of Alexander Russell with coat of arms. Engraved from the original picture in the possession of Mr. Mawhood. Painted by Dance and engraved by Trotter.
Vesalius standing next to a man lying on a table covered by a sheet, with a large book across the table. Another table on the right has a skull and various instruments.
Portrait of Andrew Boorde, Physician to Henry VIII. He is sitting with his right arm on a table. A number of books and other implements are also in the room.
Portrait of Ure looking straight ahead with his body turned slightly to the right. Engraved by R. Roffe from an original painting by Daniel McNee, for the Mechanics Magazine vol. XXVII. Published Dec. 1st 1837 by W. A. Robertson, Peterborough Court....
Ann Gunn was Duke’s first postgraduate LPN to achieve national certification in operating room technique. A Durham native, she came to Duke in 1964 to receive her LPN training. Gunn then worked on the general surgical unit from 1965-1969. In 1969 she...
Ann Gunn poses in front of the door to Operation Room 10. She was Duke’s first postgraduate LPN to achieve national certification in operating room technique. A Durham native, she came to Duke in 1964 to receive her LPN training. Gunn then worked on...
Photograph of the front of a mortsafe in an Edinburgh cemetery, with writing visible but not legible on the front of the structure.
Publisher: Edinburgh: Greyfriars Churchyard.
Portal facing toward the left, and looking to the right. Engraved by Ambroise Tardieu and Forestier. C. L. F. Panckoucke, editeur. At top of sheet, Jal. des Sciences Medicales.
Portrait of Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, who saw the capillary anastomosis between an artery and a vein, described the red blood cells and observed microorganisms in scrapings from the teeth.
Left to right, Arena, Davison, and McGovern standing. Arena and Davison both wearing glasses. Presentation inscription: "To Jay Arena from Dave W. Davison."
Hand colored diagram of the arterial system in a Persian treatise on anatomy by Mansur ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad. This is a seventeenth century copy of a late fourteenth century manuscript.
Photograph of August Krogh, who showed that blood capacity for oxygen is influenced by carbon dioxide tension. Krogh was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1920.
Augustus Grant is a cardiologist who joined the faculty at the Duke University School of Medicine in 1977. He currently serves as a Professor of Medicine and Vice Dean for Faculty Enrichment.
Augustus Grant is a cardiologist who joined the faculty at the Duke University School of Medicine in 1977. He currently serves as a Professor of Medicine and Vice Dean for Faculty Enrichment.
Augustus Grant is a cardiologist who joined the faculty at the Duke University School of Medicine in 1977. He currently serves as a Professor of Medicine and Vice Dean for Faculty Enrichment.