It did and that has been pretty well understood for decades. Truth be told, many of us (me included - massive rupture of appendix as a teenager) would probably not be here today. Few people understand how many of our forefathers died of nothing more than an abscessed tooth causing a fatal infection!
That is proven true by life expectancy studies.
It is interesting that life expectancy is now allegedly decreasing and that should concern everyone.
How much of that is lack of exercise, processed foods, accidental death (OD’s etc), and ethyl-methyl bad stuff will be debated long after you and I have met our maker!
Amen to that.
Most of the deaths today aren’t because of nature driven diseases but lifestyle choices.
Smoking, drinking, obesity drug use etc.
“Fat shaming” is frowned upon yet is a major factor in most non accidental deaths. Heart disease, colon cancer, diabetes etc is a major result of gluttony.
Something our ancestors would have fantasies about as they shivered in the darkness of a barren winter’s eve.
I can see it in my family.
I had two great grandmother’s and a grandmother who lived to be in their eighties and nineties.
But my mother, grandmother died in their seventies as did all the men. And it looks it will lessen in my generation.