Cavities aren't the reason my teeth would be a mess either. The problem is some of my adult teeth chose to pop out of my gums from interesting places. I don't know how well 19th century medicine could unfuck that sort of thing.Havok wrote:I've never even had a cavity in my adult teeth.
If you'd lived 200 years ago, would you still be alive?
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"Death before dishonour" they say, but how much dishonour are we talking about exactly? I mean, I can handle a lot. I could fellate a smurf if the alternative was death.
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You might be able to get gold teeth put in after they were yanked, but 19th century dentistry was. . .considerably less pleasant than it is now.Karza wrote:Cavities aren't the reason my teeth would be a mess either. The problem is some of my adult teeth chose to pop out of my gums from interesting places. I don't know how well 19th century medicine could unfuck that sort of thing.Havok wrote:I've never even had a cavity in my adult teeth.
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Assuming tonsilitis is not fatal, I'd be alive but probably with hearing loss from childhood ear infections (instead of from airplanes and guns!). And I'd have snaggle-teeth.

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I might or might not have died in childhood. Apparently I took a really nasty hit to the head when I was little that required some stitches to fix. Only 3 stitches, and I have no idea what I did to myself, but still.
Other than that, no broken bones or particularly nasty infections to speak of, aside from a few bouts with seasonal colds and flus, and a very nasty stomach virus episode. Come to think of it, the flu I had last year had me in a really bad way. I had to get some medications to conquer that one, and even then I blacked out and collapsed at one point.
So, I guess most likely alive since I'm still young and strong. Possibly dead if the illnesses I've had were worse than I think they were.
Other than that, no broken bones or particularly nasty infections to speak of, aside from a few bouts with seasonal colds and flus, and a very nasty stomach virus episode. Come to think of it, the flu I had last year had me in a really bad way. I had to get some medications to conquer that one, and even then I blacked out and collapsed at one point.
So, I guess most likely alive since I'm still young and strong. Possibly dead if the illnesses I've had were worse than I think they were.
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Dead. I cracked my head open 4 times, the first would have killed me without stitches.
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If I was born 200 years ago i'd probably be dead by now.
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In this thread that guy who changes his name every week doesn't realise how old catgut and a sewing needle are.The Grim Squeaker wrote:Dead. I cracked my head open 4 times, the first would have killed me without stitches.
Seriously, 1800 isn't 8000 BC guys, stitches exist.
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Duckie wrote:In this thread that guy who changes his name every week doesn't realise how old catgut and a sewing needle are.The Grim Squeaker wrote:Dead. I cracked my head open 4 times, the first would have killed me without stitches.
Seriously, 1800 isn't 8000 BC guys, stitches exist.
Of course back then we would have gotten you drunk in order to numb the pain.
reminds me of other uses for maggots that my step-mom told me about in her ER roatation....

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Having never suffered anything worse than colds, 2 broken fingers and the odd stomach aches, i guess i would be alive, but my mother and second brother die when I'm 5 (emergency slightly premature c-section, but they are both perfectly healthy otherwise, a shame). My dad dies as i turn 23 due to diabetes.
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Quite likely dead during infancy or very early childhood (if I was lucky) as a result of complications from cystic fibrosis.
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I'd be perfectly healthy, (assuming i didn't catch something I've been vacinated for, like polio) havn't even had a cold in like 6+ years, I have a very strong immune system
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What's the statistical success rate for sewing a baby's skull back together?Duckie wrote:In this thread that guy who changes his name every week doesn't realise how old catgut and a sewing needle are.The Grim Squeaker wrote:Dead. I cracked my head open 4 times, the first would have killed me without stitches.
Seriously, 1800 isn't 8000 BC guys, stitches exist.
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Yeah, you might have been lobotomized. Fun times.Gandalf wrote:I'd be fine enough, though my epilepsy would certainly cause problems.
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I think lobotomies were only introduced about 100 years ago.Thanas wrote:Yeah, you might have been lobotomized. Fun times.Gandalf wrote:I'd be fine enough, though my epilepsy would certainly cause problems.
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This thread is an excellent primer on how modern kids see history: there's "now", there's "a while ago" when we won against the nazis, and "a long time ago" when knights and people in funny wigs roamed the land and a bruise could kill you.Duckie wrote:In this thread that guy who changes his name every week doesn't realise how old catgut and a sewing needle are.The Grim Squeaker wrote:Dead. I cracked my head open 4 times, the first would have killed me without stitches.
Seriously, 1800 isn't 8000 BC guys, stitches exist.
In 1809 people fell, people got sick, people broke bones and had chipped teeth and were born the wrong way around. People needed to deal with these problems just as we do. They didn't have medical technology half as good as ours, but they did have it. It was crude and not always effective, but they did have an idea on how to fix common problems.
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For just stitches? Pretty damn high. You said you needed stitches, not skull reconstruction.The Grim Squeaker wrote:What's the statistical success rate for sewing a baby's skull back together?Duckie wrote:In this thread that guy who changes his name every week doesn't realise how old catgut and a sewing needle are.The Grim Squeaker wrote:Dead. I cracked my head open 4 times, the first would have killed me without stitches.
Seriously, 1800 isn't 8000 BC guys, stitches exist.
Seriously, some of you folks seem to think it was the stone age, or that people dropped dead from things are survivable. My mother survived jaundice when she was about 8 and despite a high fever and turning yellow they never took her to a hospital, she survived on her own, at home, in bed, being cared for by her family. Dad almost died of a burst appendix in his teens and only a new experimental drug saved him at the time (we now call that drug "penicillin") but people used to survive bouts of acute appendicitis - not always, but some did survive. People survived tonsillitis all the time, along with broken bones, ear infections, getting stitches, high fevers and the like. How they survived was a bit different - for really high fevers they'd put you in a cold bath (someone already mentioned that upthread - I don't know why they think that wouldn't also be done in 1809) instead of giving you a pill, and infections you'd have to battle on your own so instead of taking a week it might take a month or two to fight off a really bad one. Premature babies born a month early did survive, and babies also survived C-sections (though frequently the mothers didn't - actually, it was usually used only when the mother was already dead or clearly dying anyway) Ear infections were more likely to cause hearing damage, but there were a sizable number of hard-of-hearing people and even deaf people running around (Martha's Vineyard had so many they had a community where everyone hearing was bilingual with sign language as well as early at the 1700's). Granted, medicine was limited but it wasn't non-existent!
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I'd perhaps have more chance of being a dead duck at birth, since I was coming out the wrong way, while I would much more likely be either killed or more gravely maimed for life by the two to three serious injuries I've sustained. Even as comparatively recently as 1909, at least 1 in 4 infants died in child birth.
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I'd probably be dead of a combination of pneumonia and severe influenza that I suffered at age 12. Not a certain thing, but high chance. If I survived that, I'd probably have damage in one or both ears from the numerous ear infections I suffered as a child.
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My medical history has been spotless. No allergies, no broken limbs, no major surgery, no life-threatening ailments or diseases...
I guess that makes me one of the hardy members of the board.
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For now....
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Let's see.
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Multple cases of Chicken Pox. (red) Measels, possibly German Measels, phenomia, double phenomia, and the odd flu case that while didn't require medication, did have me projectile vomiting (cue the exercism).
Combine that with a trick shoulder (I can dislocate it at will without feeling pain) (cue the exercism), and abnormal strength as a teenager...
Odds are, I'd either be dead from disease, burned as a witch, or drafted into an army and dead in battle.
Without considering disease; Farsighted.
Multple cases of Chicken Pox. (red) Measels, possibly German Measels, phenomia, double phenomia, and the odd flu case that while didn't require medication, did have me projectile vomiting (cue the exercism).
Combine that with a trick shoulder (I can dislocate it at will without feeling pain) (cue the exercism), and abnormal strength as a teenager...
Odds are, I'd either be dead from disease, burned as a witch, or drafted into an army and dead in battle.
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I'd have died at birth. I was ten weeks premature, completely non-viable without a respirator. In fact, may parents were informed that they would not have been able to save me if I had been born five years earlier, let alone 200.

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My god you are a moron.Combine that with a trick shoulder (I can dislocate it at will without feeling pain) (cue the exercism), and abnormal strength as a teenager...
Odds are, I'd either be dead from disease, burned as a witch, or drafted into an army and dead in battle.
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Minor chance of death due to multiple high fevers in my childhood, and at least two cases of bronchitis. Come to think of it, I've had a lot of things treated with antibiotics over the years, so let's kick that up to a probable death for me. Nothing that's totally lethal without treatment, but still pretty bad odds.
