In “When to be Afraid: A Common-Sense Talk About Children’s Disease,” Emma E. Walker, MD warns mothers to make sure their children get adequate sleep, get to play in fresh air, and bathe to remove germs that live on tissues and fluids to prevent bodily entry . Contrasting these recommendations with those during the times of conditions such as the plague, Black Death, and syphilis, children with measles are not being blamed for being the carrier of the diseases and were instead “innocent victims” with the culprit suspected to be microbes. There was no sin associated with the disease, and children had done no wrong. With less emphasis on blame, the people in the time if the measles epidemic were able to focus on efforts of decreasing contamination and identifying the
In “When to be Afraid: A Common-Sense Talk About Children’s Disease,” Emma E. Walker, MD warns mothers to make sure their children get adequate sleep, get to play in fresh air, and bathe to remove germs that live on tissues and fluids to prevent bodily entry . Contrasting these recommendations with those during the times of conditions such as the plague, Black Death, and syphilis, children with measles are not being blamed for being the carrier of the diseases and were instead “innocent victims” with the culprit suspected to be microbes. There was no sin associated with the disease, and children had done no wrong. With less emphasis on blame, the people in the time if the measles epidemic were able to focus on efforts of decreasing contamination and identifying the