Records. Physicians Service Association-Physiological Chemicals Co. (inclusive), 1911-1974.

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Records. Physicians Service Association-Physiological Chemicals Co. (inclusive), 1911-1974.

Correspondence, advertisements, clippings, and promotional materials concerning Physicians Service Association, a Chicago neighborhood health-education organization, 1925; Physicians Supply Co., which purveyed books by A. Dale Covey on building more lucrative medical practices, 1911-1922; Physicians' Telephone Consultation Service, otherwise known as Mediphone, an apparently legitimate service linking rural general practitioners with specialists for consultation, 1972-74; Physicians' Who's Who Publishing Company, publishers of a biographical directory, 1912; and Physiological Chemicals Co., an enterprise of Dr. Simon L. Ruskin, who advocated unorthodox theories regarding musculo-skeletal disorders, 1954-58.

5 folders.

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