Records. Chinese Medicine-Chiropody (inclusive), 1908-1974.

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Records. Chinese Medicine-Chiropody (inclusive), 1908-1974.

Correspondence, advertisements, articles and clippings and supplementary materials concerning Chinese medicine (some materials in Chinese and Japanese), 1919-1974; Chinosol, an antiseptic, promoted as a contraceptive by Margaret Sanger, 1908-1945; and chiropody, an allied field of medicine, which has been called podiatry since 1958 to avoid confusion with chiropractic (some material concerns individuals who engaged in unethical practices and quackery), 1914-1973.

5 folders.

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