Medicine and health general files, 1926-1980.

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Medicine and health general files, 1926-1980.

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The records document Consumers' Research's interest in health care in the United States. Included are newspaper and magazine articles, correspondence, and newsletters and other publications. Subjects included are medicine and medical care, physicians, medical practice and malpractice, medical quackery, group and social medicine, hospitals, American Medical Association, osteopaths, chiropractors, longevity, birth control, home safety and hazards, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, accident and casualty protection, first aid, alcohol and alcoholism, public health, Health and Hygiene (magazine, 1934-1938), vital statistics, morbidity, quack medical applicances, nostrums, drugs (aspirin, allergy drugs, laxatives), ether, hydrotherapy, air pollution, diseases (heart disease, colds, obesity, foot diseases, skin diseases, sunburn, cancer), dentistry, fluoridation, toothpaste, toothbrushes, and optometry and eye diseases.

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