Records. Nutritional Guidance Centers-Nuxated Iron (inclusive), 1897-1974.

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Records. Nutritional Guidance Centers-Nuxated Iron (inclusive), 1897-1974.

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Correspondence, advertisements, articles, clippings, and promotional and supplementary materials concerning Nutritional Guidance Centers, Inc., a firm promoting a fad diet cure for obesity, 1969; Nutritional Progress Scientific Corporation, a quack firm selling salt as a cure-all, 1961-1971; Nutritional Research Associates, a firm which prescribed its faddish food products on the basis of a phony urinalysis, 1953-1974; and Nuxated Iron, a patent medicine allegedly endorsed by Pope Benedict XV, which contained no iron despite its claims, 1897-1952.

6 folders.

American Medical Association,James S. Todd Memorial Library

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American Medical Association,James S. Todd Memorial Library

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