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From: balgieri <>
Subject: Re: [MDALLEGA-L] Just Pretend & Hurt w/them.
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2000 01:50:11 -0500
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Virginia:
We're supposed to be thinking only "good" thoughts right now. Best Wishes
Barbara in WV

VIRGINIA wrote:

> >
> > > count our blessings. Life was very hard fro our forefathers.
>
> ***and our foremothers!!
>
> Did you ever think about what people did for things like the pain
> of Blood Poisoning?
> Bladder Infections?
> Having a limb cut off and inhaling only ether, which was NOT avail. in
> the countryside.
> Childbirth-rotations probably killed as many moms as did the fact of
> breech
> deliveries, and other "wrong' fetal presentations, hemorrhages that
> came from placental problems.
> We know they died most of the time, esp. from Pneumonias of various
> kinds.
>
> I often 'dwell' on these things and marvel that the human race has
> continued....
> I 'just imagine' my greats having those babies aboard those little
> vessels on the
> sea..no hot water, no sterile nothin' and yet..many survived.
> I'm gettin' depressed...again...
> ginny
> >
>
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