Records. Advisory Service Bureau-Agent Orange (inclusive), 1922-1983.

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Records. Advisory Service Bureau-Agent Orange (inclusive), 1922-1983.

Correspondence, clippings, articles, and promotional materials concerning the Advisory Service Bureau (selling a patent medicine to "rejuvenate" endocrine glands), 1922-1949; the Afflicted Infants Foundation (a quack foundation for research and treatment of birth defects), 1960; aging, 1983; Agency for Individual Data (a membership organization providing emergency medical information to hospitals for its members), 1971; and agent orange (a herbicide used in Vietnam, linked to various diseases of Vietnam veterans), 1982.

6 folders.

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