Téo had a croup episode last night. I looked online to find the earliest reference of this common children's condition. It seems to many people around here to have become common only relatively recently, but I think it is because now it has a name... In finding old texts and references, I am now only too glad to live in more modern times (imagine what they'll say in 200 years!) Take, for example, this exerpt from 1785...
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