"Spanfluenza Tablets": A Quack Advertisement in the Hartford Courant 

"Spanfluenza Tablets": A Quack Advertisement in the Hartford Courant 

Trinity College and the Influenza Pandemic of 1918

The influenza seems to have inspired many quack medicines as an easy solution. This advertisement in the Courant demonstrates that various products would have been available to Trinity students around 1918.

Hartford Courant Digital Archive

October 19, 1918

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Newspaper Advertisement

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Hartford, Connecticut; 1918 Influenza Cures