Today's story highlight's one man's courageous struggle against the forces of ignorance, greed and corruption. Pitting his medical knowledge in a fight to the finish against one of man's greatest scourges, disease. The tale begins in 1853, when New York, the city of one million people, is in the grip of a typhus epidemic. Hospitals are overcrowded with fever ridden patients, attended by weary, overworked doctors...