Records. Direct Pharmaceutical Company-Disease, Opinions on (inclusive), 1908-1979.

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Records. Direct Pharmaceutical Company-Disease, Opinions on (inclusive), 1908-1979.

Correspondence, advertisements, articles and clippings, and promotional and supplementary materials concerning Direct Pharmaceutical Company (a sales agency for William A. Webster Company, a patent medicine firm), 1919-1937; Direct Sales Company, a patent medicine firm, 1915-1951; Directories (mainly material on directories of physicians and other health personnel), 1908-1979; disciplinary actions (an AMA news release on disciplinary actions against physicians), 1979; and outdated opinions on disease, expressed by various individuals in a book published in 1929.

17 folders.

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