Records. Common Sense-Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (inclusive), 1907-1969.

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Records. Common Sense-Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (inclusive), 1907-1969.

Correspondence, articles and clippings, reports, and promotional and supplementary materials concerning COMMON SENSE, a right-wing hate publication which attacked Jews, Communists, and water fluoridation, and promoted unorthodox practices such as the Hoxsey cancer "cure," 1955-1963; COMMUNITY HEALTH AND HYGIENE, a medical education study manual put out by the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association, a Mormon group, with some input from the AMA on nostrums and quackery, 1930; Community Psychiatric Centers, a stock offering (including a prospectus) for a company operating two psychiatric hospitals in California, 1969; and Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, a state agency investigating drugs and other chemicals as well as conducting agricultural experiments, 1907-1952.

8 folders.

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