Records. Williams' Pink Pills-Wills Eye Hospital (inclusive), 1898-1968.

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Records. Williams' Pink Pills-Wills Eye Hospital (inclusive), 1898-1968.

Correspondence, advertisements, clippings, legal documents, and promotional materials concerning Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, a "blood-building" nostrum marketed with fantastic therapeutic claims, 1898-1968; Robert T. Williams, a California physician who claimed to have developed cures for venereal disease and tuberculosis, 1920-1940; the Williams School, a California institution for handicapped children, 1929; and Wills Eye Hospital, an apparently reputable Philadelphia institution, 1956.

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