Records. Tonics and Sedatives-Tonsillectomy (inclusive), 1914-1954.

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Records. Tonics and Sedatives-Tonsillectomy (inclusive), 1914-1954.

Correspondence, advertisements, articles and clippings, and promotional and supplementary materials concerning TONICS AND SEDATIVES, a column of anecdotes and humor which ran from 1903 through 1961 in the AMA Journal, 1919-1954; tonsil treatments, 1925-1949; Tonsiline, a patent medicine for diseases of the throat, 1914-1952; and tonsillectomies (file concerns the American Medical Apparatus Company, a firm which made machines to perform "non-surgical" tonsillectomies), 1930-1951.

7 folders.

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