Records. Van Bysterveld Medicine Company-Van Vleck Gland Extract Company (inclusive), 1910-1937.

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Records. Van Bysterveld Medicine Company-Van Vleck Gland Extract Company (inclusive), 1910-1937.

Correspondence, advertisements, articles and clippings, and legal, promotional and supplementary materials concerning Van Bysterveld Medicine Company, a patent medicine firm run by a quack urine specialist who sold its products to his patients, 1910-1920; Van Ess Laboratories, a manufacturer of hair preparations, 1921-1933; Daniel J. Van Velsor, a "male weakness" specialist who was connected with various quack outfits, 1914-1929; and Van Vleck Gland Extract Company, a quackish concern manufacturing gland-cure nostrums, 1913-1937.

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