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 experimental...
Volume 1, numbers 1-2, 4, and 6; February 1954; April 1954; August 1954; December 1954. Published bimonthly by Duke Hospital and the Duke Hospital Women's Auxiliary for Duke Hospital employees, staff, students, and volunteers. Mrs. Earl Porter,Editor;...
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 Duke...
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.
Bookplate: An unclothed female on a square pedestal which has the image of a skull on the front. Behind her a very large eye emanates rays which illuminate the bones and internal organs of her torso. An elaborately coiled serpent drinks from a...
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.