Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Rocky Mountain wood tick

  • The Schoolhouse Lab

    Edward McSweegan Kingston, Rhode Island, United States   Howard T. Ricketts in Mexico City laboratory. National Library of Medicine “Black measles” was a common name for spotted fever, which regularly killed people in the western United States. Symptoms included a spotty rash on the extremities, fever, chills, headache, and photophobia. No one knew what caused…