Scarlet Fever — A Source of High Mortality Before Antibiotics

But strep throat left untreated is still a risk

Cover of The Velveteen Rabbit, Margery Williams, 1922. Public Domain.

The Velveteen Rabbit was a British children’s book published in the 1920s that I remember reading in school (there was also an animated TV movie in the 1980s). The story stuck with me because it seemed so foreign of a concept. A child was deathly ill, then is sent to the country…