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VOLUME 19, NUMBER 42
Cfetober 27, 1972
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
Employe Health
Station Reopens
In addition to the recently opened
Employee Health Clinic Substation in the
Marshall I. Pickens building, the
University Health Services Clinic has
reopened an Employee Health Clinic
Substation in Duke Hospital, Room
04264.
It is the purpose of the substation
clinic to provide primary health care
coverage for work-related illnesses and
injuries to working employees requiring
first aid or health counseling about the
advisability of continuing work.
All services at the Employee Health
Clinic substations will be rendered free of
charge to the employee. However, if more
extensive medical attention is needed, the
employee may elect to utilize the services
of one of the University Health Services
clinics, the laboratory or the X-ray
located in the Marshall I. Pickens
Building, with the understanding that he
or she will be responsible for all charges
incurred by such a visit.
Admission to an Employee Health
Clinic substation re.quires only that an
employee present a referral slip (Form
no. F-10021: Referral to Employee
Health Office OR Form no. A-016:
Supervisor's Report of Occupational
Injury or Illness) to the appointments
receptionist in the lobby of the Pickens
building or to the duty nurse in the
hospital substation. No additional
registering is necessary provided the
referral slip has been properly signed by a
supervisor or department head.
The Employee Health Clinic
substations will be available as follows:
MARSHALL I. PICKENS BUILDING:
From 8 a.m.-8 p.m., Monday through
Saturday
From 2-8 p.m., Sunday
DUKE HOSPITAL:
From 8-10 a.m. and 3-5 p.m., Monday
through Saturday
IN THE TRENT /?00M—Judy Beach, a third-year graduate student-in physiology
from Rock Hill, B.C., takes a few minutes to look over a rare medical volume in the
Duke Medical Center Library's Trent Collection. Pictured at left in the background is
Susan Carlton Smith, assistant curator of the collection and a well-known illustrator of
children's books and scientific journals. The Trent Room, in which the collection of
more than 3000 rare books and the anatomical manikins are housed, is a restored 18th
Century English study, (photo by Jim Wallace)
Tiny '/Men' Spark Interest
Their exact purpose and where they
were made remains a mystery. The names,
of the artisans who carved them have
been obscured by the centuries.
What remains in the Duke University
Medical Center Library is only the
achievement, the results of hundreds of
hours of painstaking labor.
The theory is that the set of ivory
anatomical manikins housed in the Dr.
Josiah C. Trent Collection at Duke was
created either for the instruction of the
children of wealthy 17th Century families
in the anatomy of the human body or as
teaching aides in medical schools.
The quality of the workmanship, the
fact that even the pillows which support
the heads of the figures were decorated
with leafy engravings to simulate lace,
and the pregnant condition of all the
females suggest that a more probable
purpose'vvas to educate young European
ladies and midwives in the mechanics of
childbearing.
In each figure the front wall of the
chest and stomach is removable to reveal
the internal organs. Enclosed in the body
cavity are tiny lungs, kidneys, intestines,
a heart, stomach, spleen and bladder.
Even blood vessels are represented, either
carved or as red silken strands.
All but one of the women are in
advanced pregnancy. They contain tiny
fetuses which, either by accident or
design, are tucked into a "See No Evil"
position.
Like so many works of art, the
anatomical manikins have to be seen to
be appreciated. Such fine detail, when
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