Records. Stuart's Hernial Plaster Pads-Student Health Organizations (inclusive), 1907-1972.

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Records. Stuart's Hernial Plaster Pads-Student Health Organizations (inclusive), 1907-1972.

Correspondence, advertisements, articles and clippings, and promotional and supplementary materials concerning Stuart's Hernial Plaster Pads, a device promoted as a cure for hernia or rupture, 1908-1947; Frank A. Stuart, a patent medicine manufacturer, 1907-1949; Student American Medical Association, the affiliated student organization of the AMA, 1953-1972; and Student Health Organizations, a network of university-based organizations which criticized the AMA for neglecting health care for the poor, 1965-1971.

9 folders.

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