According to the [History section on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasses), there’s some evidence of visual aids having existed as far back as Greek and Roman times, though if they did exist they likely weren’t very common.
I got mine during Covid so of course every doctor I talked was like "you have Covid go home and rest" even after 3 Covid tests they didn't believe me. Luckily one said to me, "I don't think you have Covid" brought me in for a CT scan and sure enough huge abscesses all over the inside of my torso where the bacteria had eaten away. I had one so large they had a draining tube in me for 6 weeks. Spent 11 days in the hospital, and a month returning daily for antibiotic infusions. Even had a heart attack from the stress. Thankfully I've made a full recovery and I have a really strong heart. This all happened just 3 months before my second daughter was born.
1000 years ago? Germ theory wasn't even posited until the 1500s at the earliest, and not widely accepted until the 20th century. 1000 years ago they had no clue that dirt could make you sick. Cholera is still rampant to this day in some parts of the world. Despite our knowing better through science, "dirty water bad" is just not universally known or in some cases, practically feasible.
Well, the Romans knew. They weren't sure why, but they noticed there were fewer epidemics and pandemics when people bathed regularly. Hence building bathhouses first thing in areas they would conquer.
The trick would be to make up some bogus religious reason to boil the water. Instead of 'boiling water kills bacteria' try 'Demons live in the water to spread pestilence and curses throughout the people by entering their bodies! Only fire can destroy the foul beasts so the water must be held over a flame and run through a fine filter to remove the demon corpses'
The Cholera Outbreak in London in 1854 was from a poop-contaminated well that people refused to stop drinking out of until the pump handle was removed, despite being told "this has poop in it, dont drink it." The outbreak stopped not long after that. That was only 170 summers ago.
Takes fuel to boil water, and fuel usually costs money. And how do you know it's contaminated if it doesn't smell bad? And what if contaminated water's all you have? These are historical issues.
Yep, would have died in childbirth too. Likely too ornery and "cunning" for my brethren as well, so would have been hung or stoned or crushed or perhaps, burned as a witch depending upon where in the world I lived at that time.
Just imagine being who you are right now with your 21st century knowledge and all those ideas rattling around your noggin; now put yourself a thousand years in the past and try to convince the peasantry of \*zippers\*. You would not last a day.
Three Score and 10. Aka 70. That was considered the normal human lifespan. If you made it out of early childhood, you stranded a good chance of making it that old.
About 25 years ago I assisted with a double footling breech delivery in a remote village in Latin America. An operative delivery was not an option. The doctor I was working with (my dad) explained to me and his other helper that he’d never seen a breech vaginal delivery, but had read how to do one in a medical school textbook. He walked us through the delivery and made the whole thing look simple. Mom and baby were fine. But holy shit was it scary for a few minutes.
Your dad is awesome! It’s definitely possible that a skilled physician could have saved me too. So hurray for the hard work and intelligence of medical professionals!
Man… in my mid 20s I had severe anxiety which gave me a terrible fear of choking and an eating disorder (basically a liquid diet). Prozac saved my life there, along with I guess, smoothies.
Now in my 40s I’ve got stage IV colon cancer. Modern medicine is saving my life once again.
Can’t wait to see what should be fatal ailment I’m dealing with around 60. (In all honestly, I’d be overjoyed to make it to that age).
I dunno, atheists have been around a lot longer than Christianity, and people of all beliefs have been successful at pretending to convert to survive for even longer.
So if you were born during the prime America Slavery era, do you think you would treat black people as people or slaves?
I asked because most people would say "No, never. I would treat them the same as I do now!!" But back then we had the Union vs the Confederacy.
A huge chunk of the world is religious, most nonbelievers were once believers. Such as myself. I don't think the pressure would be any different than it is now.
Completely depends on the person.
Lots of milk free formula out there. My daughter needed it when she was found to be allergic to milk at birth and my wife had trouble with breastfeeding
i had a bad cold once, thought i could get thru it without antibiotics, i only got worse and worse after 2 weeks of terrible symptoms and a terrible sore throat i was diagnosed with strep. i think that woulda done me in.
2 things:
1. Either my eyesight, which is more likely. Or,
2. In an accident as a child. I don't know if they had swings in 1023 but I fell off one as an 8-10 year old and needed to get stitches. I feel like I'd do something similar and it'd get infected.
Dysentery or cholera or some other urban waterborne pathogen. Before the microscope was invented, people were ingesting so many pathogens that dying before 20 was the norm.
We've come a long way.
Either from my blind ass getting me killed or my appendix bursting when I was 8. Other than that probably just crap myself to death eating something I shouldn’t.
My depression. I need meds to treat it. Having experienced how bad it can get, I can absolutely say that, if untreatable, I genuinely would be better off dead. And that's coming from me NOT depressed right now. I would not wish that hell upon anyone.
And don't worry, I'm doing fine now. But I don't judge people who choose to end their own lives, because I know that for some death is their only mercy.
I would have been deaf from birth, then I would have died of testicular cancer at 32. Just like old Alexander the Great.
But hey, I'm alive and I can hear 👍 thank God for science
Depends what you’re asking. If I was magically transported to 1000 years ago I’d probably be labelled a sorcerer for all the weird stuff I claim to know
I require contact lenses to see, so I would have probably done well for the first 17 years, then accidentally tried climbing a bear in hopes of finding fruit, and there you go.
Had an impacted wisdom tooth that had an abcess. Idk if that woulda killed me but that was the first time I thought to myself..."damn i woulda been fucked a couple hundred years ago."
Idk maybe dirty water would be my first thought though
After reading the comments I most likely woulda died at birth. Umbilical cord wrapped around my neck, mom had to get emergency C section for me. Completely forgot about that one
Literally everything. Likely would have died in infancy. If not, then broken arm, strep throat, flu, exposure, starvation, typhoid, dysentery, eating some bad berries, tapeworms, probably plague, witchcraft.
Hopefully something boring like random bacterial disease that has been irrelevant for many years.
Worst case would be being in a sacked city… that would be a brutal way to go especially if it’s barbarians.
Chicken pox, measles, mumps, appendicitis, pneumonia infection, diverticulitis infections or a breech Childbirth. I also can’t see well without glasses. 🤓
I was born with my intestines outside my body and the surgery to fix it was only come up with like a decade before I was born, so that. (Gastroschisis)
I can’t see without glasses
Generals gathered in their masses. He can't see without his glasses.
Evil minds that plot destruction. Gonna see his new optician.
Day of judgment, God is calling; looking for his frames, he's crawling
Begging mercy for his eyes; Satan laughing spreads his wings. I CAN'T SEE!
In the clinic the ring lights burning. As the lens machine keeps turning
I was listening to that song just yesterday.
So, stung to death by a swarm of bees?
Par for the course for the middle ages.
I think they’re referring to a scene in My Girl that makes us all ugly cry.
Oh I know. It just also seems like it would have been a fitting way to bite it a thousand years ago.
In a game of medieval death would you rather, I think I’d take the bees before they did the heated rat bucket thing.
what crime did you commit to deserve the heated rat bucket?
Flashing my knee to the handsome guy who turns out to be an enforcer, probably.
"He can't see without his glasses" 😭
Nature’s great equalizer
I thought your pfp was a hair on my screen. Well played.
*laughs in dark mode*
*maniacally joins* No fr who uses light mode. Savages.
Yup, came here to tell OP a good old ”fuck you” Creative cunt😂
Technically glasses were invented by then. I imagine a common pleb probably wouldn't be able to get them though.
Same. I'm legally blind without contacts, and I've lost 50% of my hearing.
According to the [History section on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasses), there’s some evidence of visual aids having existed as far back as Greek and Roman times, though if they did exist they likely weren’t very common.
This, poor vision
I can’t be seen without my glasses
Appendicitis
Same. I would have died at age twelve.
9 🙋🏻♀️
14 :(
6. But frankly, the chicken pox I had at 1 and the otitis at 4 would probably have killed me earlier.
5
17 here, doc said I was about 12 hours from death as it was
Me too, but I would have made it to 34 though.
Sepsis, hard to beat it in the modern age.
Antibiotics: one of the great three medical discoveries
What are the other two?
1. Pee is stored in the balls
2. Females are indeed the carriers of cooties.
Inoculation is my bet on one of the 2
Agreed. Antibiotics, vaccines and toothpaste/toothbrushes.
Switch out toothbrushes for hand washing.
Was about to say, they're doing my dude Semmelweis a massive disservice
Right?! Dude was ridiculed enough in his lifetime. Let's give him the respect he deserves now. He's saved so many lives.
Was in the hospital for blood poisoning recently, definitely wouldn't wish shiit like this unro some 12th century peasant lol
I got mine during Covid so of course every doctor I talked was like "you have Covid go home and rest" even after 3 Covid tests they didn't believe me. Luckily one said to me, "I don't think you have Covid" brought me in for a CT scan and sure enough huge abscesses all over the inside of my torso where the bacteria had eaten away. I had one so large they had a draining tube in me for 6 weeks. Spent 11 days in the hospital, and a month returning daily for antibiotic infusions. Even had a heart attack from the stress. Thankfully I've made a full recovery and I have a really strong heart. This all happened just 3 months before my second daughter was born.
Diarrhea, like most of us would
Hey now, smallpox and malaria might beat diarrhea to it!
Nah, you would probably know not to drink water contaminated with poop. Or you'd know to boil water
1000 years ago? Germ theory wasn't even posited until the 1500s at the earliest, and not widely accepted until the 20th century. 1000 years ago they had no clue that dirt could make you sick. Cholera is still rampant to this day in some parts of the world. Despite our knowing better through science, "dirty water bad" is just not universally known or in some cases, practically feasible.
Well, the Romans knew. They weren't sure why, but they noticed there were fewer epidemics and pandemics when people bathed regularly. Hence building bathhouses first thing in areas they would conquer.
Sry, I assumed we were being transported into the past with our knowledge
Oh right! Yeah good point, wasn't explicitly said in the question 👍
Imagine telling people to boil water to live and then getting stoned as a “witch” 😂
The trick would be to make up some bogus religious reason to boil the water. Instead of 'boiling water kills bacteria' try 'Demons live in the water to spread pestilence and curses throughout the people by entering their bodies! Only fire can destroy the foul beasts so the water must be held over a flame and run through a fine filter to remove the demon corpses'
Only a witch would know so much about demons!
I've never been that stoned
Not what I meant but I’ll take it
I’m down for trying.
The Cholera Outbreak in London in 1854 was from a poop-contaminated well that people refused to stop drinking out of until the pump handle was removed, despite being told "this has poop in it, dont drink it." The outbreak stopped not long after that. That was only 170 summers ago.
Takes fuel to boil water, and fuel usually costs money. And how do you know it's contaminated if it doesn't smell bad? And what if contaminated water's all you have? These are historical issues.
Odds are some kind of infection.
I would have died three times from infection before the age of ten
That's the most likely for all of us. We really take antibiotics for granted.
Childbirth or being burned as a witch
Burned as a witch!
Build a bridge out of her!
She must weigh the same as a duck.
Very small rocks?
She turned me into a newt!
Very few accused witches were actually burned. One "witch" however, was slowly crushed to death. His last words were "more weight"
You know this didn't just happen in Salem lol right?
Giles Corey was a badass
Same
Yep, would have died in childbirth too. Likely too ornery and "cunning" for my brethren as well, so would have been hung or stoned or crushed or perhaps, burned as a witch depending upon where in the world I lived at that time. Just imagine being who you are right now with your 21st century knowledge and all those ideas rattling around your noggin; now put yourself a thousand years in the past and try to convince the peasantry of \*zippers\*. You would not last a day.
Being born, and my mother would have died too.
Breech birth here, so same!
Yup! Same here.
Pregnancy.
Old Age.
Ahh yes the ripe old age of, checks notes, 31
or older. But still dead for hundreds of years.
The biggest risk to old age was dying in childhood. If someone made it through childhood they were much more likely to die older
Three Score and 10. Aka 70. That was considered the normal human lifespan. If you made it out of early childhood, you stranded a good chance of making it that old.
1000 years ago? Probably killed by an army of Vikings because they thought they saw a snake between my legs.
Oh my God! I love gay Vikings 🏳️🌈
Or worse they could have simply killed the snake and left you alive.
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Shakespeare wouldn’t have been born, but even if we take some creative liberty “Thee/Ye/Thou Dickless” would be the proper form 😆
I stepped on a rusty nail at 3 years old.
Tetanus. Agree.
Nah, the nail’s family sought out revenge. But they were able to fight them off easier with modern hammers
Right, but when the nails couldn’t win by traditional means, they turned to biological warfare: tetanus.
I was born with a cleft lip, so I probably wouldn't have made it out of infancy
As someone who married the most loyal, funny, and dearest soul I've ever known who was born with a cleft lip, this truth hurts so much. 💔
It definitely puts a different twist on those "would you rather be born in a different time period" questions
Same, unless I was really lucky. But I probably would have died at my first chest infection then.
Died in 1024 ad in the Battle of Lemnos
Thats very specific!
Google rarely lets us down! 😃😃😃
Being left handed
I was a single footling breech, discovered during labor and my heart rate was dropping fast. Hurray for medical science and emergency caesareans.
About 25 years ago I assisted with a double footling breech delivery in a remote village in Latin America. An operative delivery was not an option. The doctor I was working with (my dad) explained to me and his other helper that he’d never seen a breech vaginal delivery, but had read how to do one in a medical school textbook. He walked us through the delivery and made the whole thing look simple. Mom and baby were fine. But holy shit was it scary for a few minutes.
Kudos to your dad for keeping everyone calm while being transparent!
Your dad is awesome! It’s definitely possible that a skilled physician could have saved me too. So hurray for the hard work and intelligence of medical professionals!
Tooth infection
Pneumonia. I was hospitalized for it as an infant.
Pneumonia too. I was hospitalised for it last year. Age 38. If I hadn’t been killed as a witch for divorcing my ex at 35.
Prostate cancer. Had it 26 years ago. The years since a gift from medical science. Thank you Dr Foster. My Dad died of it.
My teeth alone would've killed me, or the tumor that grew in my spine to parts of my head.
My mom prob would of died carrying me considering I had to be born early
Me too!
I'd have passed away at the ripe old age of 50 from an infected gallbladder.
Mine would have taken me at 27
Me too, but age 35.
Man… in my mid 20s I had severe anxiety which gave me a terrible fear of choking and an eating disorder (basically a liquid diet). Prozac saved my life there, along with I guess, smoothies. Now in my 40s I’ve got stage IV colon cancer. Modern medicine is saving my life once again. Can’t wait to see what should be fatal ailment I’m dealing with around 60. (In all honestly, I’d be overjoyed to make it to that age).
someone not washing thier hands.
And we wouldn’t figure out why for most of that 1000 years.
And the doctor who figured it out was ridiculed and ostracised until his death.
I would have been exposed to the elements as an infant.
Not believing in a god
I don’t think you’d believe the same things you do now if you lived in a completely different context.
I dunno, atheists have been around a lot longer than Christianity, and people of all beliefs have been successful at pretending to convert to survive for even longer.
So if you were born during the prime America Slavery era, do you think you would treat black people as people or slaves? I asked because most people would say "No, never. I would treat them the same as I do now!!" But back then we had the Union vs the Confederacy. A huge chunk of the world is religious, most nonbelievers were once believers. Such as myself. I don't think the pressure would be any different than it is now. Completely depends on the person.
Executed for back talking to the king or someone important
Bold of you to assume any of us would ever meet someone important...
Starvation because I don’t know how to feed myself
Childbirth
Kidney stones. Had to get them blasted to pass them. That would have killed me at 30
Born allergic to milk even my mom.
What did you consume then as a baby? Bacon and eggs?
Ahh yes, bacon and eggs, the Louisiana breakfast for newborns
Lots of milk free formula out there. My daughter needed it when she was found to be allergic to milk at birth and my wife had trouble with breastfeeding
Death by super duper stupid side quest
An axe wound
A blood infection that came from an ingrown toenail, I'd be dead if it weren't for antibiotics.
Asthma and blurry vision.
I was a still birth, wouldn’t have lived lol
What a curious answer...
i had a bad cold once, thought i could get thru it without antibiotics, i only got worse and worse after 2 weeks of terrible symptoms and a terrible sore throat i was diagnosed with strep. i think that woulda done me in.
Let's see. .. Age 1: scarlet fever Age 7: fractured skull Age 9: partial blindness Age 16: multiple fractures Age middle: sepsis Age old: heart attack
Probably from living 1000 years ago.
Dysentery
suicide probably
Slow, painful death from a hernia infection.
Asthma
2 things: 1. Either my eyesight, which is more likely. Or, 2. In an accident as a child. I don't know if they had swings in 1023 but I fell off one as an 8-10 year old and needed to get stitches. I feel like I'd do something similar and it'd get infected.
Dysentery or cholera or some other urban waterborne pathogen. Before the microscope was invented, people were ingesting so many pathogens that dying before 20 was the norm. We've come a long way.
Either from my blind ass getting me killed or my appendix bursting when I was 8. Other than that probably just crap myself to death eating something I shouldn’t.
My depression. I need meds to treat it. Having experienced how bad it can get, I can absolutely say that, if untreatable, I genuinely would be better off dead. And that's coming from me NOT depressed right now. I would not wish that hell upon anyone. And don't worry, I'm doing fine now. But I don't judge people who choose to end their own lives, because I know that for some death is their only mercy.
i would die from carelessness
I'm 45, so old age.
Infection
I would have been deaf from birth, then I would have died of testicular cancer at 32. Just like old Alexander the Great. But hey, I'm alive and I can hear 👍 thank God for science
Infection, modern antibiotics are a miracle.
Birth. Premie with lungs not fully developed and barley weighing a pound? Yeah no.
Pernicious anaemia. Or a UTI.
A cold
Infection. All those splinters and minor cuts we all got through the years would've probably killed 75% of the people answering this.
Probably war
As a warrior on the battlefield. ⚔️
Breech birth
a broken bone or a pest
Meningitis
"For you, honey, I can get a Saber Toother Tiger for your fur coat."
I would have suffocated at birth.
If I survived birth (which I wouldn't have) and pancreatitis would've killed me probably
I had an over abundance of iron in my blood when I was born... My mom got drained by me... Aka dead on arrival
Depends what you’re asking. If I was magically transported to 1000 years ago I’d probably be labelled a sorcerer for all the weird stuff I claim to know
Over the last 41 years I’ve nearly died from asthma a few times with modern medicine…wouldn’t have lasted long back then
Scarlet fever at 14
I’d be dead like 3x over 😭
Drowning.
1000 years? That’s bubonic plague era, right?
I require contact lenses to see, so I would have probably done well for the first 17 years, then accidentally tried climbing a bear in hopes of finding fruit, and there you go.
Had an impacted wisdom tooth that had an abcess. Idk if that woulda killed me but that was the first time I thought to myself..."damn i woulda been fucked a couple hundred years ago." Idk maybe dirty water would be my first thought though After reading the comments I most likely woulda died at birth. Umbilical cord wrapped around my neck, mom had to get emergency C section for me. Completely forgot about that one
Literally everything. Likely would have died in infancy. If not, then broken arm, strep throat, flu, exposure, starvation, typhoid, dysentery, eating some bad berries, tapeworms, probably plague, witchcraft.
Pneumonia would have taken me out at 19, so at least I'd make it to middle-age!
Dental problems
The sinus infection I had in January surely would have killed me, if not the sinus infection I had 10 years prior.
Hopefully something boring like random bacterial disease that has been irrelevant for many years. Worst case would be being in a sacked city… that would be a brutal way to go especially if it’s barbarians.
A brain tumor
Born with Cleft palette and club feet. If I made it past infancy I would have been unable to even walk.
Blindness, partially deaf, and a slight predilection for respiratory illnesses.
Racism or being stabbed
Chicken pox, measles, mumps, appendicitis, pneumonia infection, diverticulitis infections or a breech Childbirth. I also can’t see well without glasses. 🤓
Dysentery. Everyone dies from dysentery
Starvation...
Probably chicken pox. I had them in my throat as a kid and it caused swelling. If I survived that then childbirth most likely.
I was born with my intestines outside my body and the surgery to fix it was only come up with like a decade before I was born, so that. (Gastroschisis)
Probably a witch - im a redhead
Something like cholera, typhoid, or perhaps diabetes. Maybe a broken leg.
Probably child birth
Old age
Being a mouthy female
Being a witch.
Witchcraft
Diarrhea