Records. Medical Practice-Medical Research Bureau (inclusive), 1916-1970.

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Records. Medical Practice-Medical Research Bureau (inclusive), 1916-1970.

Correspondence, advertisements, articles, clippings, and promotional and supplementary materials on medical practice (file concerns National Physicians, Dentists & Druggists Service Association, a prepaid medical-services arrangement similar to an HMO), 1916-1935; Medical Research Association, a public relations firm serving drug manufacturers, 1957-1970; Medical Research Bureau, Chicago, a firm which tried to interest physicians in a profit-sharing method of selling drugs direct from wholesalers, 1929; and Medical Research Bureau, New York, an advertising firm which sent out questionnaires in behalf of a patent medicine company, 1928-1930.

4 folders.

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