What have you survived that would’ve killed you 150 years ago?

Impacted wisdom teeth. I was about 17 when they tried to come in, and my gums became horribly infected. I don't think dentistry 150 years ago was up to removing teeth that were trapped in the jaw.

I'm already past the life expectancy of then. Food and healthcare matter into there. Don't even treat myself well in health, but still I am here. Don't take any medication, had a surgery or two that *maybe* could have been threatening, but they were treated before they would be. So I have to imagine progress we made in our time

Any number of infections that needed antibiotic could have killed me in childhood. I still remember stepping on a rusty nail about the age of 4, and the terrors of the tetanus shot.

BTW, according to Google, In 1875, the average life expectancy at birth in the United States was 43.7 years for white males. At age 40, people expected to live another 30 years. For females, life expectancy was 41.5 years; risks of childbirth probably explain the lower female life expectancy.

That means half the male population died before the age of 44. These days, about 92.5% of the population reaches age 44 according to https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html

150 years ago: 1875

You can't really answer that definitely without having survived a potentially fatal disease, but 150 years ago I could have died or at least been very seriously ill from any of:

Poliomyelitis (which leaves its survivors crippled),
Cholera,
Tubercolosis,
Diptheria,
Pneumonia,
Influenza,
Any 1870s equivalent of SARS_Covid_19,

But have been inoculated against them all.

Had I escaped or survived those, I might well have suffered from one or another vitamin-deficiency disease, and would anyway be crippled by arthritis of the knees (now both replaced).

And be considered pretty ancient at 72, as well.

I jumped into a swimming pool and landed on a shard of glass at 9 years old, the owner of the apartment complex paid my doctors bills and begged ny mom not to sue, the pool was cleaned supposedly earlier that day. had 25 stitches . Probably would have bled to death.

Childbirth. My youngest was 10 lbs shoulder was caught and caused excessive hemorrhaging

Major surgery and almost bleeding out.

Had a pretty bad tummy ache the other day but I was really brave about it

PCOS, endometriosis, flu, choking.

A broken Heart....

Travelling

Birth... I almost died at birth as it was...

Common childhood diseases. An inguinal hernia that killed my uncle bobby when hecwas six, plus a cracked tooth.

Cancer

Skin cancer

Bipolar. Without my meds I'd be gone by now from suicide.

Childbirth

Having a cholesteatoma

There was no motor vehicles of any type then so none of that would have happened.

That leaves other things like my very birth which should not have happened. It would be quite likely that I wouldn't have been born.

A metabolic disease

walking past cis white men

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C1-C2 fracture

Brain Tumour

Chicken Pox

The Measles

Gangrene

Bronchitis pneumonia

Songs by Justin Bieber.

Flying across the world.

I didn't even exist 150 years ago atleast in this present form 🙆‍♀

old timey gangsters

Chicken pox, mumps, measles, childbirth, endometriosis.

Considering antibiotics weren’t discovered until less than 100 years ago, pretty much any cut or scrape 🤷‍♂

The Covid Plandemic - with no so-called 'vakseens' required.

I was a month premature with under developed lungs, a tracheostomy two months before Ibturned 3, a busted leg when I was 12, gall stones that diseased my gall bladder, wisdom teeth, blood clots in my lungs, a leaky heart valve.

Cholera, dengue, Covid-19,.

Covid

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