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Strategies & Market Trends : Winter in the Great White North -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: russet who wrote (3279)	10/14/2002 12:37:37 AM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 8273

The quality of life was better then than now in many ways. The life expectancy difference was partly due to the lower infant survival rate and the lower standard of public health measures as in the chlorination of water and handling of food. This has made far more difference to human health than modern medical practice. Life exepctancy once a person had reached adulthood was not much different from today. In two ways medicine has benefited man greatly. Introduction of hospital and home hygienic practices introduced by William Osler greatly reduced infection causing death in insitutions and the home. And the use of antibiotics reduced death from operation complication and many diseases markedly. This gave the allied forces a great advantage over the German army in wound survivability during the second world war. Statistical procedures in treatment of wounded and organized triage and hygienic methods in nursing that were developed by Florence Nightingale in the Crimean war had already reduced death on the battlefields from wounding greatly. Unfortunately a misapplication of these techniques in grouping soldiers,seriously ill from influenza in the first world war probably resulted in a rapid spread of the greatest infectious killer of modern times, the Spanish flu. Those were the days. EC<:-}