The Formula
3/27/202634 min
On Christmas Eve in 1926, a man came running into Bellevue Hospital in New York screaming that Santa Claus had been chasing him for blocks with a baseball bat. Not long after that, he died. And then another person arrived in the emergency room. And then another. This started happening in emergency rooms around the country. And it was happening because of a plan created by the U.S. government.
Deborah Blum’s book is The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York.
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On Christmas Eve in 1926, the New York Times reported that the shops were crowded, there were more visitors than usual for the season, and at Bellevue Hospital, limousines had delivered hundreds of gifts