A public health advertisement found in the 11 Oct 1918 edition of the Nashua Telegraph newspaper.
A great deal has been written about the Spanish flu or influenza. The National Library of Health at the U.S. Library of Medicine web site has a detailed article about this pandemic.
[EDITOR’S NOTE in 2020. Obviously this story was written in 2017, before we had the slightest hint of the current flu pandemic. The information on the “cures” listed below were NEVER proven that they helped at all. Do not rely on this page for medical help. Instead rely on official U.S. Government information FOUND HERE.]
This article states in part: “The 1918–1919 influenza pandemic killed more people than any other outbreak of disease in human history. The lowest estimate of the death toll is 21 million, while recent scholarship estimates from 50 to 100 million dead. World population was then only 28% what is today, and most deaths occurred in a sixteen week period, from mid-September to mid-December of 1918.”
