--- Tom Wheeler <twbounds at pop.mail.rcn.net> wrote: >
From: "Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema"
> <crdbronx at erols.com>
> > Pre-modernity also meant people didn't bathe and
> had untreatable
> > dermatological problems.
>
> I assume this statement applies primarily to
> Europeans. I recall the
> pre-modern natives of America thought the Europeans
> unhygienic. The natives
> bathed frequently, sometimes several times a day.
> The "dirty" Europeans
> ignored methods of personal care used by the
> natives. The Indian people were
> remarkably free of disease with the predominant
> disorders being external
> injuries, arthritis, digestive disorders and
> respiratory infections. Cancer,
> heart disease and nuerological problems were rare.
What was their life expectancy? And how good were at they diagnosing such things (one culture's natural death, might be anothers cancer).
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