Records. West Side Health Institute-Western Electric (inclusive), 1905-1953.

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Records. West Side Health Institute-Western Electric (inclusive), 1905-1953.

Correspondence, advertisements, articles and clippings, and promotional and supplementary materials concerning West Side Health Institute, a Chicago clinic run by Dr. William Clarence Ohlendorf, who claimed to cure a variety of ailments including sexual weakness, 1926-1953; Western Distributing Company, purveyors of a home health encyclopedia, LIBRARY OF HEALTH, containing outdated information, 1917-1953; WESTERN DRUGGIST, a trade journal which carried advertising for patent medicines and cocaine, 1905-1906; and Western Electric, a major manufacturer of communications equipment which put out a hearing device for a time, 1928-1943.

4 folders.

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American Medical Association. Dept. of Investigation.

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