tells the story of wealthy, unmarried woman who takes in a charming, impoverished artist and his ill wife. The artist soon drives away the servants and moves in his extended family, thus taking over the household. The conspirators lock the spinster in the attic and convince outsiders she’s insane in order to steal her valuable paintings.
shows how Major Walter Reed and the US Army Medical Corps used volunteer soldiers as guinea pigs to determine the cause and treatment for a disease called Yellow Jack. Set in turn-of-the-century Cuba, the doctors study a Cuban physician’s much-ridiculed theory that infected mosquitoes spread the disease. The drama focuses on soldiers who volunteer to be bitten and infected with the deadly disease, for which at that time there was no known cure.
