Records. Wilson Chemical Company-Wilson Research Foundation (inclusive), 1914-1973.

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Records. Wilson Chemical Company-Wilson Research Foundation (inclusive), 1914-1973.

Correspondence, advertisements, articles and clippings, and promotional materials concerning Wilson Chemical Company, which used deceptive advertising to recruit sales agents for its "Cloverine Salve," 1914-1964; Wilson Remedy Company, an Ohio patent medicine firm which attempted to sell its stock to physicians, 1924; and Wilson Research Foundation, a project of Robert A. Wilson, who advocated routine estrogen therapy to postpone menopause, 1963-1973.

6 folders.

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