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Please, don't try and paint a rosy picture on this. Life was brutal and short back then, very brutal and very short. Quality of life was similarly lousy watching those around you starve to death. Society didn't exactly flourish back then, but it did muddle through.
With all the negatives in this thread, I'm very, very thankful for modern medicine.
Agreed, without it I would have lost my wife, son, and mom in the past 10 years.