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Trent Associates Report - Spring/Summer 2009, Vol 17, No 1
https://library.duke.edu/sites/default/files/rubenstein/history-of-medicine/pdf/trentassociates/vol17n1.pdf
Some of the medicines were harmless liquids and pills and relied on the placebo effect. Alcohol, opium, and cocaine were common (...)
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After Spicer
https://library.duke.edu/sites/default/files/2024-10/after-spicer-babajani-feremi.pdf
As I write the number of each passing second to keep myself from counting moments, you come to me.
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Manmōinga shū 滿蒙印画輯 · Celebrating Thirty Years of East Asian Collections · Duke University Library
https://exhibits.library.duke.edu/exhibits/show/easia/photographs/china_manmo
It was burned down by the British and French expedition troops in 1860 during their invasion of Beijing in the second Opium (...)
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Diplomatic and Military Correspondence - British Imperial History, 1600-1900 - LibGuides at Duke Uni
https://guides.library.duke.edu/RL-british-empire/correspondence
This collection touches on the Crimean War and British foreign policy in China, among other issues related to British politics and trade.
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Congrats to the winners of the Middlesworth Award & Durden Prize - Duke University Libraries Blogs
https://blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2010/10/22/congrats-to-the-winners-of-the-durden-prize-middlesworth-award/
Scott “Demonstrations in the House of God: Methodist Preaching and the Civil Rights Movement in North Carolina, 1960-1969” Nominated by Laceye (...)
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The Devil's Tale - Page 25 of 131 - Dispatches from the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript
https://blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/page/25/
These images were captured by Horace Nicholls , a British documentary photographer and photojournalist. He had been a war correspondent (...)
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Understanding the World Through a Home Medicine Chest - The Devil's Tale
https://blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/2023/11/02/understanding-the-world-through-a-home-medicine-chest/
Mention of ipecacuanha and rhubarb to treat dysentery in an American second edition of William Buchan’s Domestic Medicine (1774) held (...)
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The Devil's Tale - Page 7 of 131 - Dispatches from the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript
https://blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/page/7/
The pseudoscience’s popularity overlapped with the American Civil War, and apparently also guided in the hiring of spies.