[hbs18]

You live in a very different world compared to one before antibiotics.

[withinboredom]

If death were so guaranteed from injuries, I doubt we’d have survived as a species.

[onlypassingthru]

Before the discovery of antibiotics, chopping it off was the usual standard of care for serious infections.

[colechristensen]

This is why most women spent most of their adult life pregnant and there's still lingering moral pressure to have children. Societies, especially as they advanced, had real trouble maintaining population through reproduction alone.