Records. Okola Laboratory-Omni-Med, Inc. (inclusive), 1911-1969.

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Records. Okola Laboratory-Omni-Med, Inc. (inclusive), 1911-1969.

Correspondence, articles, clippings, legal documents, and promotional materials regarding Okola Laboratory, a mail-order eye-cure fake operated by John L. Corish, 1911-1934; Old Mission Inflammation Tablets and allied remedies put out by E.W. Knowlton, 1919-1950; Olive Branch Remedy Company, makers of a panacea for "female complaints," 1911-1929; and Omni-Med, Inc., which offered a directory of English-speaking physicians in foreign countries, 1969.

6 folders.

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