Eric Anderson, MD

Family Physician/San Diego

Articles by Eric Anderson, MD

Salerno was older. It came into being around the ninth century, but nothing remains today of its existence. In the Chapel of the Work of Mercy, Montpellier still clings to its past. Where pharmacists handed their prescriptions through unobtrusive hatches to reticent nuns, bottles still stand on shelves.

The modern-day city of Bergama has a population of about 50,000, but twenty centuries ago when it was called Pergamum or Pergamon, 150,000 people lived there. Today you can buy a carpet where once upon a time multitudes came to be cured of their ills.