before modern medicine, how did medieval people live to their 80s? How did they survive common conditions that could result in death like open wound infection, tooth infection, diseases, unhygienic food and water?
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Infection was the big killer but even then there were uses for natural compounds with antimicrobial properties.
Other than that childbirth and loss of teeth for eating were big factors in mortality. So an 80-year-old would have been very rare. 40 was considered old age back then.
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