Scarlet Fever — A Source of High Mortality Before Antibiotics
But strep throat left untreated is still a risk
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3 min readApr 4, 2024
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…