Records. Cooper Medicine Company-Copeland, Royal S. (inclusive), 1908-1974.

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Records. Cooper Medicine Company-Copeland, Royal S. (inclusive), 1908-1974.

Correspondence, advertisements, articles and clippings, and promotional and supplementary materials concerning Cooper Medicine Company (a patent medicine firm whose chief products contained significant amounts of alcohol, and hence were particularly popular during Prohibition), 1908-1944; Coordinating Committee on Anti-Quackery Activities, an AMA anti-quackery committee, 1964; Coordinating Conference on Health Information, a series of conferences of federal agencies and other groups fighting quackery, 1964-1974; and Royal S. Copeland, 1908-1972.

7 folders.

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