Much Ado About Adenoids
by Jennifer Lee Noonan from Damn Interesting on (#6Y5S5)
Edmund Lawall must have felt cursed. He'd brought his family to New York in the late 1800s to carry on his father's business as a pharmacist, but fate-or perhaps the city itself-seemed determined to drive him back out again. Lawall's health had been in decline since their arrival, and his wife's kidney disease had worsened, [...]