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This series contains materials relating to Heyman's work with the Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease (CERAD). Materials include research on Alzheimer's, correspondence, CERAD meeting minutes, and test materials. Also included is material from CERAD studies in the United States and abroad, including studies in different languages. The bulk of these studies include English translations. Materials in this series date from 1959 to 2007.

Contains newspaper clippings pertaining to the trend in the 1980s to end smoking in the workplace and the specific effort to end smoking for staff and patients at the Duke University Medical Center. Also includes newspaper cartoons about smoking cessation, posters used to educate the Duke University Medical Center population of the plan to make the Medical Center smoke-free, and of the services available to help smokers quit. Materials date from 1983 to 1991.

This series contains materials from Mary Jane Byrd Penland's time as a student at Duke University School of Nursing. Types of materials include publications related to nursing and Duke University and an invitation and program for capping exercises. Materials date from 1940 to 1942.

Contains autopsy records, instruction sheets, and Social Services Department Manual. Materials date to 1940, with the bulk undated.

Contains a Medical Dame certificate awarded to Margery Farmer by Barnes Woodhall, Dean of Duke University School of Medicine. The certificate was in recognition of the help that Farmer gave her husband, Dr. Joseph C. Farmer, Jr., throughout his medical education. Materials are from 1962.

Contains death masks for Wilburt C. Davison (1892-1972) first dean of the Duke University School of Medicine, Frederic M. Hanes (1883-1946) second chair of the Department of Medicine, William A. Perlzweig (1891-1949) first chair of the Department of Biochemistry, Francis H. Swett (1893-1943) first chair of the Department of Anatomy, and Robert R. Jones Jr. (1902-1941) original member of the Department of Surgery who was murdered by a patient. One of the Hanes masks might be a life mask instead of a death mask. Some of the masks have hair stuck in the plaster. Materials range in date from circa 1941 to 1972.

Contains correspondence, meeting minutes, progress reports, surveys, and articles pertaining to projects and research in community health that Estes was involved in. Materials range in date from 1966 to 1973.