RW> You bet!  I think the average life span was around 40
 RW> y.o.  You could die from nothing more then a scratch
 RW> that got infected.
Yep - and women at certain times didn't live THAT long - in the mid 1300s the 
average livespan for a female was under 30 years.
Cut down a lot on the time she had to get into trouble with the law, but...:)
 RW> And I don't think you even want to get into the medical
 RW> and/or dental field.
What dental field?  They pulled teeth,and that was about it.  There was a bit 
of medical knowledge, but it was illegal in some places to dissect a human 
body right up into the Renaissance and beyond in some places.  OTOH, they 
were doing post mortems in Maine in the 1780s.  Go figure.:)  They could do 
some things for some diseases and disorders, but if you needed surgery, 
forget it.
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