[ * Dr. Thomas Welch, a dentist, was an anti-alcohol crusader who brought you Welch's grape juice. ]

* Dr. Thomas Welch, a dentist, was an anti-alcohol crusader who brought you Welch's grape juice. He originally marketed it as "Dr. Welch's Unfermented Wine" in the hope that churches would use it as the communion beverage. That failed, but his son Charles decided to sell it to consumers as Welch's Grape Juice. Ironically, during Prohibition, drinkers discovered that it was easy to turn Welch's into wine.

* Through the 18th century in Europe, doctors believed that the color red would reduce fever. They'd dress their patients in red nightclothes and surrounded them with red…