"It seems that the lives saved by antibiotics did't actually move the statistics by all that much, never mind all the other stuff medicine came up with." Accor

"It seems that the lives saved by antibiotics did't actually move the statistics by all that much, never mind all the other stuff medicine came up with." According to the person you're quoting, that's because Victorians ate more good food, ate less bad food, and smoked less. Medicine got better at fixing us, but we got more inclined to break ourselves, so the needle didn't move much