In the Little House on the Prairie childrens book series, author Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote that her real-life sister, Mary, was blinded by scarlet fever at age 14. The event was also dramatized on a television series based on the books. But pediatricians say the explanation for Marys blindness doesnt make sense.
在儿童系列图书《草原上的小屋》中,作家劳拉·英格尔斯·怀尔德曾提到她的亲姐姐玛丽在14岁时因患猩红热而失明。这一事件在由该书改编而成的电视剧中同样被戏剧化。然而儿科医生却认为玛丽失明原因行不通。
Dr. Beth Tarini was surprised by that discovery even as a medical student. I was in my pediatrics rotation, said Tarini. We were talking about scarlet fever, and I said, Oh, scarlet fever makes you go blind. Mary Ingalls went blind from it. Her professor disagreed, which propelled Tarini on a detective mission to find out what really happened to Mary.
在贝斯·塔瑞尼博士还是一名医科学生时就对这一发现颇感惊讶。塔瑞尼说:”当时我正在儿科轮班”。”我们谈论着猩红热,我说,‘哦,是猩红热使你失明的,玛丽·英格尔斯就是这样。”但她的教授并不同意她的观点,这使得塔瑞尼决定调查出玛丽失明的真正原因。
Tarini and her team researched the issue for 10 years. They found that Mary had scarlet fever as a young child, but her illness at 14 was referred to as brain fever. There was also no reference to her having the distinctive rash of scarlet fever as a teenager. While scarlet fever had a mortality rate for children of up to 30 percent in the 1800s, most cases of blindness from the disease were temporary.
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