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...
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...
Bertrand rectilinear system. Canada. 1953. Dr. Claude Bertrand, the French Canadian neurosurgeon, introduced his pneumotaxic guide in 1953 for the treatment of Parkinson's disease. It was based on the orthogonal system combined with rectolinear...
Picture of some buildings as they appear from an open window. Several books are on a table, and a caduceus is shown at right. Text in Latin. Drawn by Ada Carazzola.
Portrait of a book placed between columns of a building. Various other objects appear on a wall. Drawn by A. Encarnacao Santos of Lisbon. Text in Latin and Portuguese.
School of Nursing, class of 1957. A four-year professional program in nursing leading to the Bachelor of Nursing degree was established in 1953 under the direction of School of Nursing Dean Florence K. Wilson. This group was the first class to...
School of Medicine students (class of 1953) studying in Joseph W. Beard's experimental surgery lab. Joseph W. Beard was professor of surgery from 1937 to 1973. Beard and his wife Dorothy were an internationally prominent cancer team. In 1946 Beard...
Duke University School of Medicine New Students, October 1953: Anderson, H.C.; Andrews, B.F.; Bacon, G.E.; Barnhill, L.E., Jr.; Barrick, H.W., Jr.; Bedell, R.F.; Blackard, W.G.; Blount, R.E., Jr.; Bowles, L.T.; Bromberg, A.M.; Bunn, J.P.; Cannon,...
Portrait of Paul D. White sitting at a table with both hands on a book. From the painting by Jacob Binder. Presentation inscription: “To Ed Orgain with affectionate regards Paul D. White June 1952.”
Picture of a man reclining between two pictures, labeled "Fons Vita" and "Fons Mortis". Man is reclining on a pedestal labeled "Cajal", with a statue behind him. At right "In memoriam" and at bottom "Dr. Manuel Morales Fraile". By Manuel Calderon.
Portrait of a woman seated in the background. In the foreground is an hourglass, candle, book, a heart under glass, and other objects. Text: "For Ever Wilt Thou Love And She Be Fair." Drawn by B. Bramanti.
Duke University School of Medicine New Students, October 1952: Allison, R.E.; Barton, D.L.; Benson, G.D.; Bootle, W.A., Jr.; Brown, E.B.; Bryan, W.B.; Carmichael, D.E.; Carswell, A.P., Jr.; Coffin, L.A., III; Cranford, H.D.; Crenshaw, M.C., Jr.;...
The Küntscher nail is an internal fixation device used to maintain the position of the fracture fragments during healing. Dr. Gerhard Küntscher pioneered this method in 1939 and it was used during WWII to quickly heal soldiers. This particular...
Reichert arc system. Germany. 1951. This arc-radius system used Cartesian and polar coordinates. The instrument's large base allowed the brain target to be approached from any point on the skull. Modified in 1965 by Reichert and Dr. Mundinger, the...
Picture of a man lying on an operating table. A doctor is sawing into his chest and standing on a ladder. A nurse and another attendant are also present. Pen sketch by by Rogerio Ribeiro. Zincograph by Marques Abreu.
Building floorplan layout of Duke Hospital in 1951 showing the wards, entrances, three floor levels, and office suites. (From Duke Hospital Information for Patients brochure, 1951.)
Physical Therapy faculty and staff in the old gym area. Front row, left to right: William Schmidt, Helen Kaiser, Carolyn Burnett, Wilma Abrams, Eleanor Flanagan, Beth Usher, Connie Jenks, Robert Federchuck; Back row, left to right: Lois Perkins,...
A patient lies in an early tank respirator, often referred to as an "iron lung." Respirators were used primarily as treatment for polio. The first tank respirator, credited to Philip Drinker and Louis Shaw, was developed in 1929.
Carl Rogers was part of the original staff of Duke Hospital. He was known as the much beloved and admired "right hand" man of School of Medicine dean Wilburt C. Davison, who called him his "assistant dean."
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.
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...
Duke University Hospital Library reading room with only a few readers. Photographed by Walter E. Shackelford.
Durham, NC: Walter E. Shackelford, Custom Photography
Picture of a man with a nose ring, with papers, a pen and some books and instruments piled before him. Mushroom cloud in background. By Alberto Lima, for Arlindo Viana. Numbered 147.
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"
School of Medicine students performing the student-faculty show or a mock clinic. The annual student-faculty show is entirely student-run and offers a comedic view of the experiences of a medical student at Duke.
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.
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...
School of Medicine students performing the student-faculty show or a mock clinic. The annual student-faculty show is entirely student-run and offers a comedic view of the experiences of a medical student at Duke.
McGovern graduated from Duke University in 1945 (B.S. and M.D.). He served on the Duke Hospital house staff from 1948 to 1949. He received the Markle Award in 1950. The McGovern-Davison Children's Health Center at Duke University is named in honor...
Duke faculty and hospital staff in the amphitheater. (Left to right, Row 1) Watt Eagle, Mary Poston, Julian Ruffin, Nell Paschall, Lillie Pladman, Mary Stokes. (Row 2) Durena Wetmore, Carrie Sykes, Annie H. Campbell, Lillian Trevathan, Susan...
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...
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.
School of Medicine students performing the student-faculty show or a mock clinic. The annual student-faculty show is entirely student-run and offers a comedic view of the experiences of a medical student at Duke.
Department of Medicine Staff. (Left to right, row 1) James P. Hendrix, Julian Meade Ruffin, Elijah Eugene Menefee, Jr., Elbert L. Persons, Eugene A. Stead, J. Lamar Callaway, William McNeal Nicholson, Oscar Hansen-Pruss, Edward S. Orgain....
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.