People love to romanticize the past until you remind them what ‘the past’ actually looked like. There were no vaccines, no antibiotics, limited understanding of disease, questionable medical practices and diseases ran wild. The ancient Egyptians, although recognized for their beautiful pyramids, lived with smallpox, tuberculosis, and parasites, and their life expectancy was around 30-40 years if one was lucky to make it past childhood. We definitely don’t want that. Let’s not romanticize preventable suffering. #ModernMedicine #HealthMatters #MedicalFacts #ScienceWins #PublicHealth #DiseasePrevention #AncientHistory #HealthEducation #StayInformed #KnowYourHistory #MedicalMyths #trustscience