Records. Herzig, Maximilian Leopold-Hesperian Tonic (inclusive), 1910-1957.

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Records. Herzig, Maximilian Leopold-Hesperian Tonic (inclusive), 1910-1957.

Correspondence, advertisements, articles, clippings, and promotional and supplementary materials on Maximilian Leopold Herzig, alias Maximilian Leopold Best, a peripatetic quack, often in trouble for illegal practice of medicine, 1924-1957; Verner George Heseltine, who practiced medicine in Minnesota, 1929-1932; and Hesperian Tonic, a patent medicine for diphtheria, 1910-1917.

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