Europeans in that time did a lot of things that were bad and wrong and laid the groundwork of a lot of bad and oppressive ideas (racism just one of them) but to

Europeans in that time did a lot of things that were bad and wrong and laid the groundwork of a lot of bad and oppressive ideas (racism just one of them) but to view modern medicine as anything short of a modern miracle is ridiculous. I personally would have been dead three times over by now if not for modern medicine.