Records. Profit Protection Program-Progressive Physician (inclusive), 1930-1967.

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Records. Profit Protection Program-Progressive Physician (inclusive), 1930-1967.

Correspondence, periodicals and promotional materials concerning Profit Protection Program, a questionable insurance program which claimed to control deaths due to heart disease and cancer, 1967-1969; the Progress League of America, a publishing corporation which sold books on psychology to its European membership, 1930; THE PROGRESSIVE HEALTH BUILDER, a magazine edited by Carl Reynard, a person of doubtful medical qualifications, 1930-1934; and THE PROGRESSIVE PHYSICIAN, a medical periodical, 1914.

4 folders.

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