Duke Medical Center Archives January 2025 Archive

The Duke University Medical Center Archives is happy to announce that the Robert L. Blake Papers have been reprocessed and are open for research. Bob Blake, as he was known to many, was a medical illustrator at Duke from 1943 to 1983 and served as Coordinator of the Department of Medical Illustration in the Duke University School of Medicine. The collection contains Blake’s professional papers and original artwork, including pen and ink drawings, pencil sketches, carbon dust drawings, scratchboard engravings, pen trials, watercolors, reprographic materials, photographs, negatives, scrapbooks, and commercially published works. Materials range in date from 1943 to 2005.

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Take Two and Call Me in the Morning: The Story of Aspirin

Medical Center Library & Archives - Level 3

NLM Exhibit on Display until February 15, 2025

The Medical Center Library is hosting “Take Two and Call Me in the Morning: The Story of Aspirin,” a six-banner traveling exhibition. Developed and produced by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health, it chronicles the history of the ubiquitous wonder drug, from its ancient origins to the present day. For centuries, physicians and healers used willow bark to alleviate pain and… MORE

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