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scrupulously clean, to prevent bedsores and to
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minimize the breakdown of the skin.
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In addition, modern medicine would replace
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lost fluids and nutrients, and would administer
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antibiotics, not to deal with the virus,
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but with the bacterial infections that are its complications.
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What were traditional remedies?
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Some of them were surprising.
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One was a great vogue in the color red.
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There was a vogue to hang red curtains around the bed of a patient.
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Red furniture was brought into the sickroom,
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and patients, including Queen Elizabeth I of England,