(Hilda's mother's cook got scarlatina, so she had to give in about Hilda coming here for the hols after all.— Lalage's Lovers
Your Aunt Adelaide would have had you there, but her two girls have both got scarlatina--and I believe Aggie got hers there, though, of course, poor Aunt Adelaide could not help it.— Brave and True Short stories for children by G. M. Fenn and Others
The infantine troubles of teething, whooping-cough, and scarlatina were trifles as compared with the later annoyance and difficulties of dealing with striplings who had the audacity to imagine themselves grown-up, and competent to have a say in their own lives If things turned out well, they took the credit to themselves!— Big Game A Story for Girls
It is an occasional feature In scarlatina, serious cases of bilious fever, and in cutaneous affections of every description.— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand

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