Records. Bandages-Barnes, John Wyouge (inclusive), 1909-1961.

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Records. Bandages-Barnes, John Wyouge (inclusive), 1909-1961.

Correspondence, legal and promotional materials, clippings, articles, books, and supplementary materials concerning bandages and other dressings, a cancer quack, a confidence man and a patent medicine firm. Records include: Bandages--Anti-Flamma, a poultice plaster, 1911-1944; Bandages--substitutes for (sprays, poultices and other substitutes for bandages), 1936-1961; Bannerman and Company, a firm making patent medicines and intravenous treatments for various ailments, including varicose veins, 1909-1931; R.R.H. Barker, a cancer quack using the Koch method, 1939-1955; and John Wyouge Barnes, a confidence man, who claimed to be an M.D. and Ph. D., 1927-1939. Barnes practiced and lectured on "psychoanalysis"; he also passed bad checks.

6 folders.

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