Records. Foote's Sanitary Bureau-Formacone (inclusive), 1901-1932.

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Records. Foote's Sanitary Bureau-Formacone (inclusive), 1901-1932.

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Correspondence, advertisements, articles and clippings, and promotional and supplementary materials on Dr. Foote's Sanitary Bureau, a quackish mail-order business run by Dr. Edward Bond Foote and later by his son, selling advice books on medical, marital and sexual matters, 1906-1932; Force of Life, a firm which sold a "fountain-of-youth" patent medicine, 1901-1912; Forkola Jell, a patent medicine promoted by the Bacorn Company for colds, asthma, backache, rheumatism, hemorrhoids and other ailments, 1913-1932; and Formacone, a germicide and disinfectant, 1908.

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