How did women deal with female problems before modern medicine?
Like vaginal problems and child birth and all these things women have to see doctors for on a regular basis. What did women do before modern medicine? Somehow they survived.
Because women today are always complaining about that stuff. They have it easy compared to women in the 1700’s and before.
Mortality among women was very high. They suffered and they died.
I’m sure quite a few of them DIDN’T survive.
And so do men!
Are they? Who are these “women” you’re hangin’ around with?
Anyway, women went to see the local midwife, who knew all about the natural herbs that help with those “issues”, such as chaste tree berry (helps with cramps, regulates period). Women knew about these things back then. They had to.
I think everyone has it easier as a result of modern medicine, as well as modern technology. Think of all the things we do and use everyday that have made our lives easier, there are thousands.
We could say everyone should stop whining about things, but then we would be living the same as we did 200 years ago.
Yes. We ALL have it easy compared to people who lived in the 18th century. Men too. Kind of a stretch to make this a gender issue.
And sometimes they didn’t survive. I just popped a small ovarian cyst a couple days ago. If it had been a worse situation and I lived in the 1700’s, I could have died, or been left with serious problems. They also died in childbirth frequently.
But we don’t really have to see doctors for feminine problems on a regular basis (most of us anyway). I see my gyno once or twice a year. I think that’s fairly standard.
Yes. Very many women died in childbirth. Children often died before their 5th birthday.
And the average lifespan was fourty years at the beginning of the 20th century. Contaigeous diseases like smallpox, polio, Spanish Flu, etc.
killed MILLIONS and didn’t discriminate along gender lines. Please think your questions through before you post.
They mostly died in child birth. They probably went to a Shahman(Medicine man) or used herbs to take care of their bleeding and child birth.
They didn’t survive- a lot of them actually died during childbirth or because of minor infections.
Women in countries with no access to modern medicine still have disturbingly hight maternal mortality rates.
not just women, we all have it easy today, as long as we have access to medical care. The most common killer of children today is still malaria, a disease that is very easily treated with modern medications. People used to die from the flu or pneumonia, and now they are more of a nuisance than a serious disease.
sweetie, how did all of mankind deal with any kind of health problems without modern medicine? We did the best we could and it resulted in a lower life expectancy.
If they had problems they lived with it, and if it was too tough to live with it, they died, just like any medical problems before modern medicine.