Most people didn’t live long enough to get it back then.
I disagree. If you survived the first 5 years of your life, you were likely to have a fairly long life.
“Most people didn’t live long enough to get it back then.”
Right. It’s hard to believe the “scientists” didn’t realize/acknowledge this.
People were easily carried off by all sorts of diseases and injuries that now we recover from. I’m sure many people were malnourished, lacked clean water, etc. And when treatments consisted of stuff like having leeches suck out your blood it’s pretty amazing we made it as far as we have!