Records. Turnock Medical Company-Twilight Sleep (inclusive), 1907-1938.

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Records. Turnock Medical Company-Twilight Sleep (inclusive), 1907-1938.

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Correspondence, advertisements, articles and clippings, and promotional and supplementary materials concerning Turnock Medical Company, a mail-order medical firm, 1907-1924; John M. Tutt, a quack who made herbal medicines for a time and later became a Christian Science lecturer, 1919-1938; Tutt's Pills, apparently a cure-all patent medicine, 1912-1922; and Twilight Sleep, a drug containing morphine used to relieve pain of childbirth, 1914-1923.

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American Medical Association,James S. Todd Memorial Library

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