"Scarlatina" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... there was plenty of it in the stables; and then she would have saved her money, and saved the chance, also, of making all the children ill instead of well (as hundreds are made), by taking them to some nasty smelling undrained lodging, and then wondering how they caught scarlatina and diphtheria: but people won't be wise enough to understand that till they are dead of bad smells, and then it will be too late; besides you see, Sir John did certainly ...
— The Water-Babies - A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby • Charles Kingsley
... fellow," he said, as I condoled with him, "when I said I would die a bachelor, I never thought I would live to be married, go off on a wedding trip, catch the influenza at Innsbruck, the measles at Milan, the scarlatina at Samarcand, and the ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, 1890.05.10 • Various |
