Records. Medical World-Medication Errors (inclusive), 1906-1983.

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Records. Medical World-Medication Errors (inclusive), 1906-1983.

Correspondence, advertisements, articles, clippings, and promotional and supplementary materials on MEDICAL WORLD, a medical journal, 1908-1935; medication and its effects, 1983; "medication, erroneous"--i.e., deaths of children from taking medicine by mistake, 1906; and medication errors (file concerns harmful effects of acetanilid, antipyrine and phenacetin), 1909-1932.

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