Records. Medical Horrors-Medical Journals, Miscellaneous (inclusive), 1910-1978.

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Records. Medical Horrors-Medical Journals, Miscellaneous (inclusive), 1910-1978.

Correspondence, advertisements, articles, clippings, and promotional and supplementary materials concerning MEDICAL HORRORS, a popular magazine describing medical abuses and errors, 1932; Medical Information Bureau, established by the insurance industry to provide medical information on individuals to insurers, 1978; Medical Information Service, a medical-examination subsidiary of an insurance company, 1970-1973; and miscellaneous medical journals and their allied organizations, some of them anti-AMA, 1910-1958.

5 folders.

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