Dr. Ewald W. Busse (standing), director of the Center for the Study of Aging, is shown with medical psychologist Dr. Walter D. Obrist as they study an elderly person’s brain wave patterns recorded by an electroencephalograph.
Elderly volunteers for research conducted by the Duke University Center for the Study of Aging receive thorough physical and mental examinations. Here, a medical scientist is shown as he makes microscopic observations of blood vessels of the eye.
Building floorplan layout of Duke Hospital in 1951 showing the wards, entrances, floors, and office suites. The legend includes clinics, departments, storerooms, outpatient area, laboratories, the library, and dining areas. (From Inside Duke...
Lenox Baker graduated from the Duke University School of Medicine in 1933. He served as professor of orthopaedics and orthopaedic surgery. He was the chief of the Division of Orthopaedics (Department of Surgery) from 1937 to 1967.
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...