Records. Medicine, Illegal Practice-Medicine Shows (inclusive), 1921-1982.

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Records. Medicine, Illegal Practice-Medicine Shows (inclusive), 1921-1982.

Correspondence, advertisements, articles, clippings, and promotional and supplementary materials concerning illegal practice of medicine, 1975-1976; Oriental medicine, 1974-1977; "medicine, scope of practice" (file concerns critical views of physician attitudes toward patients), 1982; and patent medicine shows, 1921-1966.

4 folders.

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