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Foreground: "Portrait of a Pharmacist Nun," by Stefano Gherardini, 1723 (Szépművészeti Múzeum/Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, 2020). Background: A nun works in the pharmacy at Misericordia Hospital (now called Mercy Philadelphia), which opened in 1918, the summer before the worst of the flu epidemic (Catholic Historical Research Center, Archdiocese of Philadelphia).