Records. Samaritan Remedies Company-Samuels, Professor (inclusive), 1910-1969.

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Records. Samaritan Remedies Company-Samuels, Professor (inclusive), 1910-1969.

Correspondence, advertisements, articles and clippings, and promotional and supplementary materials concerning Samaritan Remedies Company, operators of a chain of treatment centers for alcoholism, 1913-1957; samples of drugs (file concerns the purchase of drug samples from physicians for resale), 1937-1969; C.G. Samuels, an impostor who posed as a physician, 1928; and "Professor" Henry Samuels, a quack who treated disease with eye drops, 1910-1924.

10 folders.

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