Records. De Barthe Treatment-DeForest-Baldwin Adjustments (inclusive), 1911-1953.

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Records. De Barthe Treatment-DeForest-Baldwin Adjustments (inclusive), 1911-1953.

Correspondence, advertisements, articles and clippings, legal documents (including articles of incorporation), and promotional and supplementary materials concerning De Barthe Treatment, a quack treatment for rheumatism offered at the Chicago Hospital, 1911-1928; Defensive Diet League of America, a food fad group headed by George E. Harter, 1923-1953; Deflector, a face mask promoted to prevent the spread of disease, 1911; and DeForest-Baldwin Adjustments, concerning research by Dr. Henry P. DeForest and Dr. Horace G. Baldwin at Cornell University on snapping joints to relieve rheumatism, 1926-1943.

6 folders.

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