Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans discusses Dr. Susan Dees; her friendship with Dr. Dees; Dr. Dees introducing Semans to her] second husband, Dr. Jim Semans; little time for socializing in the medical center; Dr. Dees's success as both a physician and in...
Dr. Halperin discusses Duke Medicine's beginnings as a coeducational institution; Duke as influenced by the Abraham Flexner Report on medicine; Flexner as supportive of women's medical education; Duke's initial faculty as being from the coeducational...
Dr. Fridovich speaks about his arrival in Duke University's Department of Biochemistry in 1952; Dr. Bernheim's reputation at the time for having discovered the amine oxidase; Dr. Bernheim's reputation for good teaching; Dr. Bernheim's reputation for...
Dr. McCarty speaks about how she came to know Dr. Grace Kerby; Dr. Kerby as her mentor and colleague; Dr. Kerby as a stalwart of Duke's Department of Medicine; others' impressions of Dr. Kerby gathered from Dr. McCarty's own oral research about Kerby;...
The Duke Hospital Auxiliary was started in 1950, and Betty Leach started to do volunteer work them in 1956, shortly after moving to Durham. She was vital to the founding of the “Pink Smock” gift shops at Duke Hospital. These stores grew from a simple...
Dr. Wyngaarden discusses his background; education; war experience; research; internship at Massachusetts General Hospital; work with Walter Bauer on arthritis patients; steroids; potential draft for Korean War; Jim Shannon; National Institutes of...
This 1975 report to the congress was compiled by the Comptroller General of the United States to (1) report on the problems that hamper the extenders in improving health care delivery and (2) present recommendations to the Secretary of Health,...
Message sent by Donald Fisher, Executive Director of the AAPA and APAP, to educational and professional leaders in January or February 1974 announcing leasing of 1950 square feet of office space in Washington, DC for the national office; continuing to...
Dr. and Mrs. Smith at their 50th wedding anniversary reception at the Carolina Inn. Dr. Smith was the James B. Duke Professor of Microbiology; chair of the Department of Microbiology (1930-1958); and associate professor of Medicine in the division of...
This position paper produced by the Association of the North Carolina Regional Medical Program in 1969 provides background information about the growing crisis in health manpower during the 1950's, national and state health manpower statistics, the...
Dr. Ruth Freeman, Johns Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health writes Dr. Eugene Stead, Jr. a letter dated October 13, 1964 responding to Dr. Stead's recent visit and paper describing his ideas about training physician's assistants....
Unknown physical therapist and patient in the original therapeutic pool, installed in the 1940s or 1950s by Helen Kaiser, PT, Director. At times the pool would overflow and flood the back hall of the basement and occasionally even the post office.
November 5, 1950 letter from Susan R. Chapin to Wilburt Davison thanking him for a copy of his "Thumbnail Sketch" and "Reminisces" of Sir William and Lady Grace Osler.
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.
Photograph of Herman W. Johnson with the inscription: "With affectionate regards to my midwife friends of the Southland. Herman W. Johnson, Baylor University College of Medicine Jan. 30, 1950"
Members of the physical therapy class of 1950 in the basement of Duke Hospital (Physical Therapy department). An unknown physical therapist is in the original treatment pool with a polio patient.
School of Medicine Dean Wilburt C. Davison (looking at camera) dining with students and colleagues. This dinner is likely at Turnage's Barbecue, a popular local destination during the 1950s.
D. Gordon Sharp (M.A. Duke, 1937 and Ph.D., Duke, 1939) operates the electron camera in a laboratory. "This $18,000 electron microscope which takes pictures of tiny viruses and magnifies them as much as 100,000 times their actual size, has just been...