The most recent one was more superficial, and likely would have been fine. I have a fairly conservative doctor who doesn't tend to prescribe anything if a bit o

The most recent one was more superficial, and likely would have been fine. I have a fairly conservative doctor who doesn't tend to prescribe anything if a bit of time will work. The thumb, though: It needed antibiotics on top of being lanced (I wound up at urgent care) as the worry was that it was entering the bloodstream - the red streaks were a warning sign. That one was more likely to have killed me at some point. Folks died quite often from infection. An infected tooth can kill: Same for infection after childbirth. Sure, they can go both ways and the body takes care of things until it doesn't. My broken bone would have been fine, but folks died of this stuff as well. They would list cause of death as the accident rather than the infection due to lack of knowledge. Compound fractures were more likely to kill. Even in this day many people can't or don't afford surgery or medication and still manage to survive wounds. This is true, but people will do some self-care for wounds. Can't afford stitches, but can clean the wound well and use the bandage strips on it and continue to keep it clean. People didn't always do these things and some of the things we did were just wrong, simply for not understanding microbiology.