Records. Neuralgia-Neurons (inclusive), 1914-1942.

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Records. Neuralgia-Neurons (inclusive), 1914-1942.

Correspondence, advertisements, articles, clippings, and promotional and supplementary materials regarding neuralgia and patent medicines for its relief, 1914-1934; neuritis and a patent medicine for treating neuritis, 1923-1942; Neuro Chemical Company, maker of a patent medicine for nervous headache and other ailments, 1924-1932; and neurons (file concerns William B. Thompson, a quack who promoted the "Zone Therapy" system of treating disease), 1919-1934.

6 folders.

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