First of all, these are called "diseases of poverty," so if you were middle class, as most were, you would probably never have contracted them. Having said that, smallpox had a 70 percent survival rate before it was eradicated and only about 13 percent of people had syphilis.
Diseases like tuberculous were because of crowding in cities and didn't really reach pandemic stage until late 18th/early 19th century. Polio is one of these diseases, but it doesn't even come to fruition until the 20th century. While it's true that the bubonic plague made a resurgence in the early 18th century, these were very localized outbreaks and would've been easy to avoid.
If you were a middle class man in the early 18th century, you would've probably either avoided or survived all of the so-called horrible diseases of the past.
The vaccine eradicated it, but after I did some reading on the CDC website, I found out that 7 out of 10 times, it would be a 3 or 4 week outbreak that would eventually lead to the outbreak scabbing over and then falling off. Unfortunately, sometimes there would be scarring and sometimes people would even go blind from smallpox, but this wasn't most cases.
It didn't, most of the world never used it.
Even more pathetic. Vax is useless.
Hmm, I never looked into it before. I'll do some deep diving on the eradication of smallpox tonight!
Was polio eradicated before of the vaccine, or no?
Oops, BECAUSE of the vaccine, my bad.
"Polio" was eradicate when they banned DDT.
>13 percent of people had syphilis.
That's a pretty big fricking number
Lol the fricking flu killed people back then
Around the world, the flu still kills hundreds of thousands of people every year. But it only kills the old and the weak, so nobody notices. When a person in the 80s dies of "old age" rather than a specific cause, it's likely that the flu got them.
>if you were middle class as most were
>as most were
The absolute highest number for poverty in 18th century Europe that I've seen is 20 percent. I admit that's a high number, but it's not most people.
Precisely.
that number's the landless poor who were on the very bottom. But serfs and even a good chunk of free farmers were what we'd think of as poor in terms of their proportion of wealth, standard of living, and access to medicine.
Worse, most of the middle class lived in plague sinks (cities)
I don't know why you made such a worthless post.
>you are alive right now
>your ancestors were those lucky enough to survive malady that existed in the past long enough to reproduce
>ah yeah you would’ve made it bro
What did he mean by this?
What I mean is that most people on planet earth did survive. It was the minority that perished in these epidemics, but if you listen to mainstream opinion on the 18th century, they try to describe it like it was some kind of miserable time.
>What I mean is that most people on planet earth did survive.
Literally everybody from the 18th century died lol.
by modern archeological evidence the 18th century is literally the second lowest point in average general nutrition and health in European history, right after the Black Death
The only reason they say that is because, like I said in the OP, there was a brief resurgence of the black death in places like France, Prussia and the Hapsburg empire after the Great Northern War, but those outbreaks were very localized and would be easy to avoid.
>First of all, these are called "diseases of poverty," so if you were middle class, as most were,
moron
If monarchs died of smallpox we wouldn't know as they rewrite the history.
There were quite a few elites that died of smallpox and it didn't matter. Smallpox is why Louis xiv and not xv was in the revolution.
there was no such thing as the middle class back then. the middle class only really existed between 1900 and 2000.
The term "middle class" was first coined in 1745 to describe the large amount of people who were neither poor, nor landed gentry. Even before 1745 you had the phrase "the middling sort" to describe artisans and such.
>First of all, these are called "diseases of poverty," so if you were middle class, as most were, you would probably never have contracted them
Why are americans so unbelievably moronic?
The absolute highest number that I've seen for the poverty rate in the early 18th century was 20 percent, which I admit is a high number, but it's still not the majority of people. And if you read my OP again, you'll see that I explain why these are called diseases of poverty. Oftentimes they come from living in overpopulated areas, a bunch of people crammed together as it were. Not to mention the poor had to live in rooms with their livestock! If you were middle class, as many were, you could avoid this.
Just don't be a disgusting bastard who fricks prostitutes and loose women and you'd avoid many diseases.
People of the past behaved like animals.
That's such a pretty painting.