Whooping-cough
Whooping cough, also called pertussis, acute, highly communicable respiratory disease characterized in its typical form by paroxysms of coughing followed by a long-drawn inspiration, or “whoop.” The coughing ends with the expulsion of clear, sticky mucus and often with vomiting. Whooping cough is caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis[1].
Children disease Jane had in the childhood in “The Mission of Jane”.
The diseases Jane had caused no danger, which underlines a good health this character possesses. Jane was so calm and healthy child, that her father never had to help her mother with the child.