Records. Mental Retardation-Merchandise Unordered through the Mail (inclusive), 1910-1971.

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Records. Mental Retardation-Merchandise Unordered through the Mail (inclusive), 1910-1971.

Correspondence, advertisements, articles, clippings, and promotional and supplementary materials concerning mental retardation, 1965-1971; Mentholatum Company, makers of a patent medicine for colds and other respiratory diseases, 1913-1967; MERCANTILE AND FINANCIAL TIMES, a periodical which endorsed quackish patent medicines, 1910-1919; and unsolicited medical and other merchandise sent through the mail, 1926-1967.

6 folders.

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American Medical Association. Dept. of Investigation.

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