Records. Health Publicity Service-Health Research (inclusive), 1915-1969.

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Records. Health Publicity Service-Health Research (inclusive), 1915-1969.

Correspondence, advertisements, articles and clippings, and promotional and supplementary materials on Health Publicity Service, a scheme by Dr. Hyman Cohen to supply newspapers with cartoons on health matters, 1915-1950; Health Remedy Company, a proposed patent medicine firm, which tried to coax doctors into buying its stock, 1916; and Health Research, a faddist health book firm, 1954-1969.

3 folders.

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