Records. Dermatology-Devereux Foundation, 1900-1972.

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Records. Dermatology-Devereux Foundation, 1900-1972.

Correspondence, advertisements, articles and clippings, and supplementary materials concerning the St. Louis Dermatological Company, purveyors of a patent medicine for removing freckles, 1900-1918; Albert Deutsch, a writer on medical topics, 1938-1949; Charles Augustus De Vere, a quack doctor and anatomy lecturer who often taught a post-graduate anatomy course for doctors before being exposed, 1937-1949; and Devereux Foundation, a foundation to support a residential treatment and education center for retarded and emotionally disturbed children, 1972.

4 folders.

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