The Definitive History of the Flu

Champagne remedies, sneezing ferrets, and thousands of years of havoc

Tom Prince
Elemental
Published in
16 min readOct 7, 2019

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The Greek historian Thucydides reports on a “three-year plague,” and the Greek physician Hippocrates refers to the “Cough…

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Tom Prince
Elemental

Tom Prince has been an editor at New York Magazine, Allure, Real Simple, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Reader’s Digest, and Condé Nast.