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eliminate varicose veins. Frutex was claimed to be an effective preventive strategy and cure for bleeding gums, sore throat, earache, swollen neck glands, pneumonia, and acute rheumatism. In the criminal case, both Kordel and
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748:Kleinfeld, Vincent A; Kaplan, Alan H. (1965).
702:Vegetarian Diet Involves Some Danger to Health
403:How to Keep Your Youthful Vitality After Forty
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312:The Quarterly Review of Biology
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299:Health Through Nutrition
270:Federal Trade Commission
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1096:Frederick Madison Allen
888:United States v. Kordel
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