Records. Life Sciences Foundation-Limestone Phosphate Company (inclusive), 1915-1980.

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Records. Life Sciences Foundation-Limestone Phosphate Company (inclusive), 1915-1980.

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Correspondence, advertisements, articles, clippings, and promotional and supplementary materials on Life Sciences Foundation, an organization which conducted cancer research and apparently treated patients, 1966-1971; Lifespring, an organization promoting a controversial "life awareness" course which led to health problems and even deaths among its members, 1979-1980; LIFE TODAY, a popular health advice periodical, 1954; LIGHTNIN', a muckraking publication which attacked Dr. Herman N. Bundesen, health commissioner for the city of Chicago, 1928; and Limestone Phosphate Company, promoters of a nostrum to be drunk with hot water as a cureall, 1915-1935.

5 folders.

American Medical Association,James S. Todd Memorial Library

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American Medical Association,James S. Todd Memorial Library

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