Pulling the Cart or On the Cart?
We’re nearly a decade into the 21st Century (and still no flying cars), so here’s something to muse on today: Would you have survived the Middle Ages?
Twenty Sided pondered this question a while back, and it was interesting to see how many of the commenters wouldn’t have made it without modern medicine.
In my particular case, assuming that my father hadn’t died of that burst appendix at age six, I’d have probably made it to adulthood. Unfortunately, I’d most likely have died during childbirth. Bummer.
How about you?
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January 1st, 2008 at 1:57 pm
I barely survived the Swine Flu epidemic in the late 60s. I was nursed back to health with the aid of popsicles. No popsicles in the middle ages, no me past age four. Poor little bugger. But I always did like a ride in a wagon.
January 1st, 2008 at 3:15 pm
I would have made it to adulthood, most likely. Childbirth probably would have been the end of me. Emergency c-sections were not perfected (for the benefit of the mother) in the middle ages. Perhaps I should start referring to my son as Macduff?