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| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Woman on crutches entering the front office of the uranium tunnel to receive a uranium treatment. Several men sitting in front of the storefront on benches... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | The Milwaukee Thermo Therapae building at Fourth and Sycamore Streets. It was also known as Dr. Hanson's Thermo Water Cure. |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for the Madison Water Cure and Electro-Hydrogienic Institute, formerly the Lakeside Water-Cure. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Advertising ephemera for Electricity in a Bottle by the West Electric Cure Co. of Chicago which claimed to cure catarrh, hay fever, headache, asthma, and n... |
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| Description: | Advertising for Dr. Birney's Catarrhal Powder, showing a drawing of a woman administering a treatment to herself by blowing the powder up her own nose thro... |
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| Description: | Advertisement for Wine of the Woods and Balsam Drops, a purported cure for dyspepsia, constipation, and headaches marketed to women and sold by John L. Moo... |
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| Description: | Advertising card for Dr. Townsend & Sons of Wyocena, manufacturers of all kinds of fluid extracts, liniments, etc. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Men and women seated on benches along both walls of Kenneth Crook's Uranium Tunnel in Lone Rock. Note the uranium pads visitors hold in their laps or on th... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Summary of actions taken by the State of Wisconsin against Wallace A. Reinhardt, Andrew Morgan, and Nathaniel C. Rogers in the District Court of Milwaukee.... |
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| Description: | Directions for using the vacuum cap, a device intended to stimulate hair growth. A drawing at the top shows a man with the cap on his head with the cap tur... |
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| Description: | Directions for use of Dr. Owen's Electric Belt and Spinal Appliance. There is a drawing of the device at the top of the page. |
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| Description: | Advertisement for William Wilson, Medical Electrician that features a Greek godlike figure wearing various electrical medical garments and holding a placar... |
| Date: | 04 10 1948 |
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| Description: | Menu souvenir, mounted on board, of a "They Went Then Till They Came to the Delectable Mountains" cartoon by Clifford K. Berryman for the spring dinner of ... |
| Date: | 12 1894 |
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| Description: | An illustrated article in Godey's Ladies Book regarding "triumph of surgery" to improve one's facial features. |
| Date: | 11 01 1924 |
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| Description: | A prescription for alcohol written out to Mrs. Anna Steinberg of Kenosha, Wisconsin to treat her bronchitis. |
| Date: | 10 14 1919 |
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| Description: | Certificate of newly elected officers of the Till Institute, a patent medicine company in Town of Almeda, Turtle Lake, Wisconsin. John Till served as Presi... |
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