Records. Ex-Lax Manufacturing Company-Expose (inclusive), 1899-1970.

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Records. Ex-Lax Manufacturing Company-Expose (inclusive), 1899-1970.

Correspondence, advertisements, articles and clippings, and promotional and supplementary materials concerning the Ex-Lax Manufacturing Company, makers of a cathartic, 1916-1969; expectorants (material concerns Schiffman's Asthmador, an asthma "cure"), 1899-1970; "Expert Medical Testimony" (concerning an offer by Leroy A. Nordstrom, a Chicago quack, to sell such testimony), 1930; and EXPOSE, a rabidly anti-AMA periodical, 1951-1956.

6 folders.

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