Records. Strong, Cobb and Company-Stroopal (inclusive), 1913-1954.

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Records. Strong, Cobb and Company-Stroopal (inclusive), 1913-1954.

Correspondence, advertisements, articles and clippings, and promotional and supplementary materials concerning Strong, Cobb and Company, a patent medicine firm which apparently specialized in skin treatments, 1916-1940; Frederick Finch Strong, apparently a follower of Albert Abrams and inventor of the Gravitonic Life Ray, an electronic cure-all, 1923-1954; Lionel Strongfort, operator of a correspondence school which offered courses in body-building and physical culture, 1917-1932; and Stroopal, a cancer cure, 1913-1938.

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