Records. Superstitions-Surgical Supply and Manufacturing Company (inclusive), 1909-1945.

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Records. Superstitions-Surgical Supply and Manufacturing Company (inclusive), 1909-1945.

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Correspondence, advertisements, articles and clippings, and promotional and supplementary materials concerning health-related superstitions, 1909; surgery (file concerns the School of Orificial Surgery, a quack school which promoted orificial surgery as a cure for a variety of diseases and sold mail-order correspondence courses on orificial surgery), 1918-1928; surgical dressings, 1934-1944; and Surgical Supply and Manufacturing Company, maker of surgical supplies and hernia and foot appliances, 1925-1945.

4 folders.

American Medical Association,James S. Todd Memorial Library

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American Medical Association,James S. Todd Memorial Library

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