{"id":17828,"date":"2025-10-13T08:47:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T12:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/?p=17828"},"modified":"2025-10-10T13:58:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:58:45","slug":"celebrating-the-dr-thomas-bashore-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/2025\/10\/13\/celebrating-the-dr-thomas-bashore-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the Dr. Thomas Bashore Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> Wednesday, October 29, 2025<br \/>\n<strong>Time:<\/strong> 4:30 p.m. \u2013 5:30 p.m.<br \/>\n<strong>Location:<\/strong> Rubenstein Library Room 153, Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room<br \/>\n<strong>Contact:<\/strong> Rachel Ingold (<a href=\"mailto:rachel.ingold@duke.edu\">rachel.ingold@duke.edu<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The History of Medicine Collections recently received the <a href=\"https:\/\/archives.lib.duke.edu\/catalog\/homartifacts_aspace_9b0f392cf5bced246f0ccdcbf9d055be\">Thomas Bashore, M.D., Collection of Artifacts<\/a>. Dr. Bashore is Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the Duke University Medical School, where he specialized in treatment of cardiovascular conditions and congenital heart disease. He first began collecting historic medical artifacts, such as mechanical devices relating to electrotherapy and cardiology, and expanded his collection to include fringe medical instruments and treatments.<\/p>\n<p>Please join us on Wednesday, October 29, at 4:30 p.m. to celebrate the Thomas Bashore Collection. Dr. Bashore will provide remarks.<\/p>\n<p>Items from the Thomas Bashore, M.D. Collection are currently on display in the <a href=\"https:\/\/library.duke.edu\/exhibits\/about\/trent\">Josiah Charles Trent History of Medicine Room<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/library.duke.edu\/exhibits\/about\/hubbard\">Hubbard Case<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2025 Time: 4:30 p.m. \u2013 5:30 p.m. Location: Rubenstein Library Room 153, Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room Contact: Rachel Ingold (rachel.ingold@duke.edu) The History of Medicine Collections recently received the Thomas Bashore, M.D., Collection of Artifacts. Dr. Bashore is Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the Duke University Medical School, where he specialized in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/2025\/10\/13\/celebrating-the-dr-thomas-bashore-collection\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Celebrating the Dr. Thomas Bashore Collection<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":17829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,551,83,47],"tags":[],"coauthors":[653],"class_list":["post-17828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-featured","category-history-of-medicine","category-new-rl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Celebrating the Dr. Thomas Bashore Collection - The Devil&#039;s Tale<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/2025\/10\/13\/celebrating-the-dr-thomas-bashore-collection\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Celebrating the Dr. Thomas Bashore Collection - The Devil&#039;s Tale\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2025 Time: 4:30 p.m. \u2013 5:30 p.m. Location: Rubenstein Library Room 153, Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room Contact: Rachel Ingold (rachel.ingold@duke.edu) The History of Medicine Collections recently received the Thomas Bashore, M.D., Collection of Artifacts. 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