Records. Tennessee Food and Drug Inspection-Tervis Sanitarium (inclusive), 1911-1978.

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Records. Tennessee Food and Drug Inspection-Tervis Sanitarium (inclusive), 1911-1978.

Correspondence, advertisements, articles and clippings, and promotional and supplementary materials concerning inspection of food and drugs by the Tennessee Food and Drug Department, 1911-1914; Tennessee State Medical Association and its journal, 1914; Terpezone, a patent medicine used in an inhalation device to treat blood diseases and other ills, 1913-1941; and Tervis Sanitarium, a Russian sanitarium, 1978.

7 folders.

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