I am the oldest of three children. We all got the chicken pox and the measles (no shots then) at the same time, back to back. The doctor made house calls back then and he made one for each of us for all the yucky's we could get. Calamine lotion was the drug of choice. We had to put socks on our hands to not scratch. We were 8, 6 and 2. My poor mother. As soon as the chicken pox were over we all came down with measles. I think I was out of school for weeks.
