"Scarlet Fever"
Journal article
By: George F. Dick and Gladys H. Dick
Date: December 1924
Source: Dick, George F., and Gladys H. Dick. "Scarlet Fever." The American Journal of Public Health 14 (December 1924): 1022–1028.
About the Authors: George Dick (1881–1967) was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Gladys Henry (1881–1963) in Pawnee City, Nebraska. They met while working together in etiological research at the University of Chicago and married in 1914. Both worked as physicians at the John McCormick Memorial Institute for Infectious Diseases in Chicago. Their work on scarlet fever generated controversy when they patented their method of preparing and manufacturing diagnostic tests for it.
Introduction
As late as 1900, scarlet fever killed 10 out of 100,000 people, making it one of the leading infectious disease killers, as it had been for many generations. Scarlet...
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