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From: slb@drutx.UUCP (Sue Brezden)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: While my catarrh gently weeps
Message-ID: <59@drutx.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 10:49:33 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  5 10:49:33 1985
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>I have tried to make it a point that people survived well before 20th century
>meidicine.  
>

I have a project for you if you really believe this.  Go into any
old cemetery.  Then start looking at the family plots.  Do you know
what you will see?  Whole families wiped out.  Especially children.
5, 6, 7 or more children taken by typhoid, diptheria or whooping
cough at a time.  Carvings expressing sorrow at losing "our sweet
girl" at the age of 13 from "a fever".

Then go to a newer cemetery.  Will you see such a thing?  Not in a
section where people are wealthy enough to afford modern medical care.

I, for one, being a baby born from a mother with placenta prevaria (I
hope that was spelled correctly) would not be here without modern
medicine.  I have heard my grandmother express her joy that her
children could have 4 children and expect to have them all live, 
rather than 10, and expect at least 6 to die before reaching adulthood.

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