Library Artifact Collection
The Medical Center Library maintains a small collection of medical instruments and other artifacts related to medicine and health care. The collection has items of historical significance to Duke as well. A neurosurgical stereotactic equipment exhibit is on level 3 and was donated by Dr. Blaine Nashold. In addition, there are two large collections of apothecary jars. The Caldwell collection includes porcelain and hand-blown glass jars from the 19th century collected while the Caldwells were in Ecuador. The Library also has on loan from the Mary D. B. T. Semans Foundation a beautiful collection of Italian and Hispano-Moresque albarelli (apothecary jars) and versatoi (ewers or pitchers) from the 15th to 18th century.
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Total Works (114)
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Heimberger arc system. USA.1972Heimberger arc system. USA. 1972. This arc system was made in 1972 by Dr. Robert Heimberger, professor of Neurosurgery at Indiana University... |
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Bertrand rectilinear system. Canada. 1953.1953Bertrand rectilinear system. Canada. 1953. Dr. Claude Bertrand, the French Canadian neurosurgeon, introduced his pneumotaxic guide in 1953 for the... |
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Austin and Lee burr hole system. USA. 1956.1956Austin and Lee burr hole system. USA. 1956. The basic design consisted of a device mounted on a burr hole in the skull. It allowed guidance at... |
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Reichert arc system. Germany.1951Reichert arc system. Germany. 1951. This arc-radius system used Cartesian and polar coordinates. The instrument's large base allowed the brain... |
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Grass stimulator system1970Grass stimulator system. Quincy, MA: Grass Medical Instruments, 1970. 5 instruments. Built by Grass Medical Instruments of Quincy, Massachusetts,... |
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Narabayashi arc system. Japan.1950Narabayashi arc system. Japan. 1950. The original instruments were built in 1950. The current model on display was used to treat Parkinson's disease. |
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Avery Labs stimulator system1970Avery Labs stimulator system. Farmingdale, NY. 1970. 6 instruments: 2 Brain and spinal cord stimulators. 1cutaneous, 1 transcutaneous and 2 neuro.... |
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Radionics radio frequency type lesion generator1970Radionics radio frequency type lesion generator. Burlington, MA: Radionics, Inc., 1970. Built by Radionics, Inc. of Burlington, Massachusetts, this... |
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W-P Instruments Stimulator system1970W-P Instruments Stimulator system. New Haven, CT: 1970. Built by W-P Instruments of New Haven, Connecticut, this instrument was used to stimulate... |
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Todd-Wells stereotactic standundatedTodd-Wells stereotactic stand. Southgate, CA: Made for Codman and Shurtleff by Trent H. Wells, Jr., Mechanical Development Co. [n.d.] |