Records. National Foundation for Asthmatic Children-National Guardians of Health League (inclusive), 1924-1969.

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Records. National Foundation for Asthmatic Children-National Guardians of Health League (inclusive), 1924-1969.

Correspondence, advertisements, articles, clippings, and promotional and supplementary materials concerning the National Foundation for Asthmatic Children, which raised funds for asthma treatment, 1948-1965; National Fund for Medical Education, an organization for improvement of medical education, 1969; National Goitre Treatment Corporation, a patent medicine firm promoting a goiter "cure," 1924-1931; and National Guardians of Health League, apparently an organization promoting alternative medicine and health foods, 1959.

4 folders.

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