Records. Lung-Germine-Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (inclusive), 1906-1967.

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Records. Lung-Germine-Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (inclusive), 1906-1967.

Correspondence, advertisements, articles, clippings, and promotional and supplementary materials on Lung-Germine, a patent medicine for tuberculosis, 1906-1937; Lyko Medicine Company, a distillery which became a patent medicine company at the advent of Prohibition and promoted an alcoholic patent medicine, 1919-1929; Evelyn Lyons, a woman who used a hot water bottle to simulate a high fever, 1923; and lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), an hallucinogen, 1959-1967. This file also includes information on A.M. Hubbard, who appears to have practiced medicine without a license and been involved with LSD.

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