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From the History of Medicine Artifacts Collection: Perkins’s Tractors - The Devil's Tale
https://blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/2017/01/26/perkins-tractors/
There, in the course of his practice, Perkins “discovered that, by drawing over the parts [of the body] affected in particular (...)
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Resistance through Community: Prison Zines in the Twenty-First Century - The Devil's Tale
https://blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/2023/02/20/resistance-through-community-prison-zines-in-the-twenty-first-century/
Beginning with interception of mail containing a drawing for a manuscript on sexual assault in prison, Barrilee Bannister recounted (...)
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The Satirist and Tinkerer, Hogarth - The Devil's Tale
https://blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/2020/01/10/the-satirist-and-tinkerer-hogarth/
Hogarth engraving: “The bench : of the different meaning of the words character, caricatura and outrè in painting and drawing.” I want (...)
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FOUND: RBMSCL Issue - The Devil's Tale
https://blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/2011/08/25/found-rbmscl-issue/
So when we discovered the drawing above tucked into an RBMSCL brochure that had been left behind in the Rare Book Room, we had to share it.
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The Rubenstein Library’s disruptive copy of A Curious Herbal - The Devil's Tale
https://blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/2022/11/14/a-curious-herbal/
It originally had been owned by a London apothecary named Josiah Messer (1753-1830), whose signature was inscribed on the verso of the title (...)
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Controversy vs. Benefits: Vivisection Items in the History of Medicine Collections - The Devil's Tal
https://blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/2012/08/23/controversy-vs-benefits-vivisection-items-in-the-history-of-medicine-collections/
In one photograph, it is evident from its posture that a dog that had its pituitary gland removed is undergoing discomfort; the image was taken (...)
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2010-2011 Franklin Research Center Travel Grants Awarded - The Devil's Tale
https://blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/2010/05/06/2010-2011-franklin-research-center-travel-grants-awarded/
Watch The Devil’s Tale for news about upcoming discussions with several of the travel grant recipients from the Bingham, Hartman, and Franklin (...)
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The Literary Ladies' Guide to the Writing Life - The Devil's Tale
https://blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/2011/10/16/nava-atlas/
Filled with more than 100 archival images, The Literary Ladies’ Guide to the Writing Life presents twelve celebrated women authors (including (...)
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Commercials in the Classroom - The Devil's Tale
https://blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/2010/06/09/commercials-in-the-classroom/
Halperin ABC's of John Hope Franklin - (B) Brooklyn College Come for the ad, stay for the history lesson Post navigation Previous Post (...)
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New Exhibit! Malignant Fever: Benjamin Rush and the 1793 Epidemic in Philadelphia - The Devil's Tale
https://blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/2016/01/15/new-exhibit-malignant-fever-benjamin-rush-and-the-1793-epidemic-in-philadelphia/
This exhibit highlights the effects of epidemic diseases on society by examining one of the most famous outbreaks in U.S. history – the 1793 (...)