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SPRING 2007
VOLUME 5 / NUMBER 2
IN THIS ISSUE: BITE THE BULLET

Where Soaking Up the Sun was Treatment

The Influenza Pandemic of 1918

Shrub the Source of Mom’s Cure-All

Our Second President Takes the Water Cure

On the cover:

Children with tuberculosis soak up sunshine and sea breezes at the Seaside Sanatorium in Waterford, c. 1940.
Connecticut State Library, State Archives.

Contents
pg 9	From the Publisher:
pg 10	Letters, etc.
pg 12	Seaside: Sun and Sea Harnessed to Fight Tuberculosis By Ann Harrison and Mark H. Jones
pg 20	A Knack for Bonesetting. By Maureen Welch and Alicia Wayland
pg 26	Witch Hazel: Connecticut’s Wonder Shrub. By Mary M. Donohue
pg 32	Spanish Flu Epidemic of 1918: Ninety Days that Sickened Connecticut. By Ralph D. Arcari, Ph.D.
pg 40	The Birth of Hospice in the U.S.: Living Till the Last. By Jennifer Huget
pg 44	re: Collections — Fortune’s Story. By Ann Smith
pg 46	Shoebox Archives Doctoring on the Field of Battle. By Janice Mathews
pg 48	Destinations James Pharmacy. By Andra Chantim Stafford Springs: John Adams Takes the Water Cure. By Andra Chantim
pg 52	Afterword What’s new on the Connecticut history bookshelf, spring flings, and more…