Calvin Coolidge Jr. died from sepsis in 1924. He was playing tennis and got a blister on his foot, it was infected and there were no meds to stop the infection.
Coolidge Jr got the blister playing tennis barefoot, and probably ignored it until the ensuing staph infection was well underway. People of that time (1924) who paid attention to their little injuries - wash with soap and water, hit it with some alcohol, cover it (i.e. don’t keep going barefoot on it) didn’t tend to die from them.
I used to work in the American medical system and I can speak for hours about all the abuses and stupid mistakes Western medicine can make. But I can do even more on how people hurt themselves by not going to doctors.
There was a fellow who had arm apin and went to a chiropractor. Heart attack.
I’ve seen people who passed out at work because they were trying to do manual labor and fast for Ramadan. Or people who skipped their meds because of fast days.
I heard an old Rabbi’s line. “The Bible is like the daily newspaper. If the newspaper tells you that the President was in New York City last night you know that it’s absolutely true. If the newspaper tells you that it’s likely to rain tomorrow, you can accept that as very probably right. If the newspaper shows you a little boy with a talking tiger you have to accept the metaphor.”
Mortality rate was higher than today but life wasn’t anywhere near that extreme. Most people don’t die from minor untreated infections - that’s what our immune system is for.
you get a scratch, you die in pain from infection a week later
That’s part of “no growing old 😃”
Calvin Coolidge Jr. died from sepsis in 1924. He was playing tennis and got a blister on his foot, it was infected and there were no meds to stop the infection.
Tennis: Not even once.
Coolidge Jr got the blister playing tennis barefoot, and probably ignored it until the ensuing staph infection was well underway. People of that time (1924) who paid attention to their little injuries - wash with soap and water, hit it with some alcohol, cover it (i.e. don’t keep going barefoot on it) didn’t tend to die from them.
Bob Marley died from ~~gangrene following a football injury on his toe. ~~ cancer in his toe. Guess I heard it wrong.
I assume he had ‘reasons’ not to go to a doctor?
I used to work in the American medical system and I can speak for hours about all the abuses and stupid mistakes Western medicine can make. But I can do even more on how people hurt themselves by not going to doctors.
There was a fellow who had arm apin and went to a chiropractor. Heart attack.
He was perfectly entitled to make that decision?
Peg Leg Bates.
Famous one legged dancer Marley would almost certainly ahve heard of.
https://youtu.be/NXesFCMwys0
Rastafarianism has a taboo against body modifications.
I’ve seen people who passed out at work because they were trying to do manual labor and fast for Ramadan. Or people who skipped their meds because of fast days.
I heard an old Rabbi’s line. “The Bible is like the daily newspaper. If the newspaper tells you that the President was in New York City last night you know that it’s absolutely true. If the newspaper tells you that it’s likely to rain tomorrow, you can accept that as very probably right. If the newspaper shows you a little boy with a talking tiger you have to accept the metaphor.”
If you’re lucky, the scratch didn’t come with the predator’s fangs on your throat
Mortality rate was higher than today but life wasn’t anywhere near that extreme. Most people don’t die from minor untreated infections - that’s what our immune system is for.