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. 2004 Jan;17(1):42-55.
doi: 10.1080/08998280.2004.11927956.

A history of pathology and laboratory medicine at Baylor University Medical Center

George J Race  1 , G Weldon Tillery, Peter A Dysert 2nd
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A history of pathology and laboratory medicine at Baylor University Medical Center

George J Race et al. Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent). 2004 Jan.
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Figure 1
Interns in an early laboratory at the Baylor College of Medicine in Dallas.
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Figure 2
Early leaders in the pathology department: Drs. W. H. Moursund, Janet Caldwell, Stuart Wallace, and Joseph M. Hill.
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Figure 3
Bernice Miller, a nurse technician, working in the Baylor laboratory in the 1930s.
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Figure 4
The ADTEVAC machine, which could dry blood plasma, created by Dr. Joseph Hill, head of the Baylor laboratories.
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Figure 5
Collecting blood from hundreds of people following the April 1947 Texas City disaster, which killed 500 and injured 3000.
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Figure 6
Dr. George J. Race, chief of pathology from 1959 to 1986.
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Figure 7
Dr. Sol Haberman, first director of microbiology.
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Figure 8
Laboratory automation in the 1970s: (a) a Coulter counter to perform complete blood counts; (b) an SMA-6 machine to measure blood levels of sugar, urea nitrogen, sodium, potassium, carbon dioxide, and chloride.
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Figure 9
At the electron microscope: Sunny Bettis and Dr. James H. Martin.
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Figure 10
Dr. George Race (left) with Dr. Dighton Rowan, director of virology, and Dr. Floyd Norman, chief of pediatrics, in 1968.
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Figure 11
A pathology resident. Dr. Jackie Torrell, cutting gross tissue in 1979.
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Figure 12
Dr. G. Weldon Tillery, chief of pathology from 1986 to 1998.
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Figure 13
BUMC core laboratory, 2001.
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Figure 14
Organization of the BUMC Department of Pathology, 1986.
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Figure 15
Dr. Peter A. Dysert II, chief of pathology from 1998 to the present.
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