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February 4, 2013 01:51 pm PST
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Forget scarlet fever: What really blinded Mary Ingalls
Anybody who has spent much time with children's literature knows that scarlet fever blinded Mary Ingalls. But scarlet fever doesn't cause blindness. Mary really did become blind, though, in real life as well as in the books, so what was the real culprit? A paper published this week in the journal Pediatrics speculates that it [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/gJofm6mYZyM/forget-scarlet-fever-what.html
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