Records. Parker Chiropractic Research Foundation-Parker Publishing Company (inclusive), 1915-1978.

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Records. Parker Chiropractic Research Foundation-Parker Publishing Company (inclusive), 1915-1978.

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Correspondence, clippings, articles, advertisements, books, legal documents, and promotional materials concerning Parker Chiropractic Research Foundation, which offered a "professional success" (i.e., salesmanship) course for chiropractors, 1966-1972; Frank Parker Institute, promoters of the Herbex line of hair products, 1915-1948; Merle E. Parker, a fundamentalist evangelist and "healer" implicated in several mail fraud schemes, 1954-1963; and Parker Publishing Company, mail-order purveyors of quasi-medical literature, 1976-78.

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American Medical Association,James S. Todd Memorial Library

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