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Those Healthy Yankees Part 1: Graham and Alcott

This is the start of a two-part piece on the early 19th Century Yankee contribution to healthy lifestyles. The parallels with today’s pandemic are most interesting. The material comes from a chapter in volume 2 of my book The Yankee Road. In 1832, the Great Cholera Epidemic hit the United States. It was another of… Continue reading Those Healthy Yankees Part 1: Graham and Alcott