<p><span class="deck"> Patent medicines were usually neither patented nor medicinal, which is not to say they didn’t (and don’t) have any effect</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> In the sumptuous history of transatlantic passenger travel it wasn’t all mahogany panelling and ten-course meals. Consider, for instance, war and seasickness</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">It was the most devastating enemy surprise attack since Pearl Harbor—but what mysterious affliction were people dying of two days later?</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> HOW A FARSIGHTED QUAKER MERCHANT AND FOUR GREAT DOCTORS BROUGHT FORTH, WITH MADDENING SLOWNESS, ONE OF THE FINEST MEDICAL CENTERS IN THE WORLD</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">The mysterious diseases that nearly wiped out the Indians of New England were the work of the Christian God — or so both Pilgrims and Indians believed.</span></span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> Americans have never been so healthy, thanks to advances in medical technology and research. Now we have to learn to deal with the staggering costs.</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">American medicine in a crucial era was at once surprisingly similar and shockingly different from what we know today. You could get aspirin at the drugstore, and anesthesia during surgery. But you could also buy opium over the counter, and the surgery would be more likely to be performed in your kitchen than in a hospital.</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">A disease that no one understood laid waste a major American city. Five thousand died in two months, and Memphis was never the same again.</span> </span></p>
<p>Toward the end of World War I, American doctors fought an invisible enemy on the home front — a pandemic that would kill more people than any other outbreak of disease in human history.</p>
