Records. National Council for Health Education-National Cystic Fibrosis Research Foundation (inclusive), 1937-1972.

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Records. National Council for Health Education-National Cystic Fibrosis Research Foundation (inclusive), 1937-1972.

Correspondence, advertisements, articles, clippings, and promotional and supplementary materials regarding National Council for Health Education, apparently a small anti-AMA organization with some ties to Scientology, 1972; National Council on Smoking & Health, an anti-smoking organization which offered a patent medicine to cure addiction to tobacco, 1963-1964; National Council on Social Hygiene, which offered films, lectures, and pamphlets on venereal disease, 1937; and National Cystic Fibrosis Research Foundation, a fund-raising foundation, 1959.

4 folders.

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