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DUBUQUE REMEDIAL AND SURGICAL INSTITUTE
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DUBUQUE REMEDIAL AND SURGICAL INSTITUTE. Opened in 1874, the Institute was located at 970 Main Street. The management claimed to
develop and sustain the organs of the human system so perfectly and
thoroughly that each organ acts with reference to the wants of the
others....
The Institute maintained a Turkish bath, the "equalizer," mediated vapor baths and the Swedish movement cure.
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Source:
"Dubuque County Before 1880," Telegraph-Herald and Times-Journal, November 16, 1933, p. 17