On Sept. 23, I sat in a small glass reading room at Yale’s medical library, turning the rag-paper pages of the Medical Dissenter, a London journal from the 1830s. At the bottom of one page, under the headline, “Report from Mrs. Butt to Mr. Hudson,” I met Jane Butt. Her letter was dated Sept. 23, 1834. I was reading it 192 years later to the day. Jane lived in the village of Broughton and explained that measles had spread through the children around her earlier that year. She described how one of her own children had caught it. She then reported 36 other cases in her community. Some, she noted, developed severe inflammation of the lungs, one of the complications that can make measles deadly. She believed a cold east wind aggravated their symptoms. Nevertheless, she reported, all of them recovered. Read the rest…
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