> I've had at least one infection that would probably have killed me in the 17th century.
I had a run of 5 years where every summer I'd get bitten by something and it'd get infected requiring antibiotics. Had to do one interview with a right hand that was easily 50% larger than usual, bright red, and emitting a terrifying amount of heat. Luckily it didn't involve any typing...
(Although in olden times I wouldn't have had those infections because I would undoubtedly have died in childhood - fell down the stairs onto my head as a baby, got stabbed through the hand with a pencil at school, allergic reaction to bullrushes, had a thumb sliced open with a rusty stanley knife also at school, cut my knee and elbow open by landing on a milk bottle on holiday, concussed myself jumping a ramp on a bike, cheese-grated myself on the road going over the handlebars when my chain locked, got bitten countless times by cats both pet and feral, had measles, chicken pox, rubella, plus a variety of other illnesses and scrapes etc. all before my teens.)
I had a run of 5 years where every summer I'd get bitten by something and it'd get infected requiring antibiotics. Had to do one interview with a right hand that was easily 50% larger than usual, bright red, and emitting a terrifying amount of heat. Luckily it didn't involve any typing...
(Although in olden times I wouldn't have had those infections because I would undoubtedly have died in childhood - fell down the stairs onto my head as a baby, got stabbed through the hand with a pencil at school, allergic reaction to bullrushes, had a thumb sliced open with a rusty stanley knife also at school, cut my knee and elbow open by landing on a milk bottle on holiday, concussed myself jumping a ramp on a bike, cheese-grated myself on the road going over the handlebars when my chain locked, got bitten countless times by cats both pet and feral, had measles, chicken pox, rubella, plus a variety of other illnesses and scrapes etc. all before my teens.)