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Thank you for this, theoddz. Truly, thank you.

I found it so very interesting to read and so strangely "current". So many of those images from 100 years ago could have been taken yesterday in our hospitals.

One thing that struck me was the ad for quinine...and that sent me down a most interesting rabbit hole.

Hill's Cascara Quinine
This January 1919 newspaper ad stated that "Spanish influenza can be prevented easier than cured." The ad promoted Hill's Cascara Quinine Compound which apparently treated "the common cold and headaches due to constipation."

Quinine water...tonic water...gin and tonic for Brits in malaria infested colonies:

"chloroquine was developed from quinine, an alkaloid found in the bark of the cinchona tree, which grows in the tropical highlands of South America. The Incas passed the bark cure to Jesuit priests, who transported it to Europe in the mid-sixteen-hundreds. The National Institutes of Health calls quinine “the most serendipitous medical discovery of the 17th century,” but its side effects—diarrhea, vomiting, partial deafness and blindness—could be devastating. A less toxic derivative of chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine, was developed in the nineteen-forties. Doctors and pharmacists call it HCQ."

One link to another, it all makes very interesting reading if you're so inclined.