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Happy Valentine’s Day from Becker Archives!
Send your science-loving sweetie a valentine from Becker Archives and Rare Books!
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Reproductive Rights: Highlights from Becker Archives and Rare Books
Reproductive rights in America are constantly changing. But how did we get here? Historical context can help us understand our current moment and even possible futures. Becker Library has a variety of historic materials that shed light on the history of reproductive rights at WashU and in St. Louis.
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Dr. Katherine Bain, her friend Christine Glass, and their home at 2710 Quebec Street
Using archival records to determine if a friendship between two women was something more is challenging. At first glance, the records are rather ambiguous, perhaps intentionally so. What can we learn if we look closer?
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Say I ? You with Valentines from the Becker Archives
Is your sweetie into immunology? Does your heartthrob have a lab job? If so, send your beloved one of these valentines from the Becker Archives!
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When Is Beer Not Beer? When You Say It’s Medicine
You might expect a malt brew with as much as 5% ABV to be a beer, but in the late nineteenth century Pabst apparently liked to think outside the keg.
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In His Own Words: Julian Mosley, MD on supporting and advocating for Black Students at WUSM
“I came here with kind of the idea of opening up doors and trying to get the school involved in doing things for minorities” – Julian Mosley, MD, 1990 As a student at Washington University School of Medicine, Julian C. Mosley, Jr., MD, was instrumental in advocating for Black students. In the in the late [Read more]
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Beyond “In Their Own Words”: Stories of Black Excellence and Resources on the Intersection of Race and Medicine
Becker Library’s newest exhibit, “In Their Own Words: Stories of Desegregation at Washington University Medical Center,” highlights the experiences of Black people and their allies who faced institutional racism and fought for change. Learn more about the stories and topics presented in the exhibit with these resources.
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A headband that could help you hear: The Aurolese Phone
This headband, called an Aurolese Phone, is on display along with more than 60 other hearing devices in a new exhibit at Becker Library called “How did we get hear? Historic hearing devices, 1800-2000.” Compared with the conversation tubes, ear trumpets, and more familiar-looking electronic hearing aids on display in Glaser Gallery, this floral headband seems rather out of place.
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Patent medicines part two: “Ayer” ready for this?
If you were in need of cathartic release in the 19th-century, you might reach for Ayer’s Pills — but relief is the last thing you’d be feeling.
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Patent medicine advertising: The questionable claims and contents of ‘Sapanule’
The @BeckerLibrary Archives and Rare Books team have been providing a liberal dose of quirky quackery with our new weekly Instagram hashtag #MedicalAdMonday. It’s a showcase of salves, tonics, balsams, and bitters that claim to cure all manner of maladies, from chilblains to catarrh, boils to biliousness. But what was in these patent medicines and [Read more]