塔瑞尼和她的团队花了十年来研究这个问题。他们发现,玛丽小时候患有猩红热,但她在14岁所患的病应被称为“脑膜炎”。另外,也没有资料显示她在青少年时期出现猩红热皮疹症状。虽然在19世纪猩红热导致的儿童死亡率高达30%,但大多数情况下失明是暂时性的。
As the team continued to investigate, they discovered that Laura wrote a letter to her daughter, Rose, in 1937 describing Marys illness. Laura sent the letter right before the publication of her book By the Shores of Silver Lake, which described Marys blindness as being caused by scarlet fever. However, an excerpt from the letter stated: Mary had some sort of spinal sickness. I am not sure if the Dr. named it. We learned later when Pa took her from De Smet, South Dakota to Chicago, Illinois to a specialist that the nerves of her eyes were paralyzed and there was no hope.
进一步的调查发现,1937年劳拉曾写了一封信给她的女儿露丝描述玛丽的病情。劳拉写这封信时正好是她的新书《银湖畔》出版之前,书中写到玛丽由于患猩红热而失明。然而信的摘录却写到:“玛丽有某种脊柱病,我不确定医生是否这么叫它,我们后来才知道,当爸爸带着她从南达科他州的迪斯梅特到伊利诺伊州的芝加哥时,专家已认为她的眼睛的神经坏了,没有希望了。”
After poring over historical records, including the Ingalls town newspaper that reported that Mary had suffered from severe headaches and partial paralysis on one side of her face, the researchers now believe that Mary contracted viral meningoencephalitis, which inflames the brain and spinal cord. By inflaming the optic nerve, it can also lead to blindness.
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