Records. Rittenhouse and Revere-Rizal, Jose P., Memorial Foundation (inclusive), 1936-1967.

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Records. Rittenhouse and Revere-Rizal, Jose P., Memorial Foundation (inclusive), 1936-1967.

Correspondence, advertisements, articles and clippings, and promotional and supplementary materials concerning Rittenhouse and Revere, Inc., makers of quackish medical devices and an obesity "cure," 1948-1963; Riverside Specialty Company, a firm which purchased sample drugs from physicians for resale, 1936-1937; and Jose P. Rizal Memorial Foundation, a proposed organization of Filipino physicians in North America to help improve health care in the Philippines, 1967.

3 folders.

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