The beliefs and practices that the Inca believed was their ruler was related to the sun god, and would bring wealth and power to them. And only men from one of 11 noble families believed to be descendants of the sun god could serve as king.
In August, prominent physician Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence, long considered the father of American medicine, described an “unusual number of bilious fevers, accompanied with symptoms of uncommon malignity.” He concluded that, “All was not right in our city.”
