Antibiotics hadn’t been invented in the 1910s, so there were quite a few untreatable potentially deadly diseases in circulation. In the modern era, rightly or w

Antibiotics hadn’t been invented in the 1910s, so there were quite a few untreatable potentially deadly diseases in circulation. In the modern era, rightly or wrongly, a lot of people see it as a good and achievable goal that they shouldn’t ever get an infectious disease more serious than the flu.