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I’m reading The Way We Never Were and it’s amazing how much we get wrong about the good old days.
Ah the good ole days when children and infants were dying left and right, a splinter could mean a slow painful death by infection, and the local doctor prescribes drilling a hole in your head to release bad spirits
Don't forget the "bloodletting". Got to get that bad blood out along with the head spirits.
Some people today practice self-trepanation