The Velveteen Rabbit/Trivia

Science Marches On: Burning the personal effects of scarlet fever patients was common during the 1920s, but it's now known that scarlet fever is very unlikely to be spread that way. Also, the disease has been easily treatable since the 1940s thanks to the discovery of penicillin.

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