2006-12-02 08:09:51 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Other - General Health Care
different methods. salt and water will kill many germs and bacteria, and clean out many infections. there are also natural plants that will help, goldenseal & witch hazel are two that I know worked for specific priblems. Some infections can be cured by sprinkling sugar directly on the wound. Others justrelied on their body's natural resistance to disease to do the curing. However, many more people developed gangrene and other lethal infections because there was nothing to cure them. The death rate was very high 150 years ago
2006-12-02 08:21:08 · answer #1 · answered by judy_r8 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
People in the days prior to antibiotics tend to have short lifespans. So when there was an infection, they let the body figh the infection. If the body was unable to fend off the infection, people simply just die. Some may have used herbal medicine like the Chinese and the Native American Indians. Thanks to modern medicine, people are living longer and healthier lives. but if people abuse the use of these antibiotics and they no longer work on the infections, we might end up like the people in the past. It's scary, but it is happening.
2006-12-02 16:32:57 · answer #2 · answered by Jimmy 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Antibiotics was here before You and I came into this world, people were using herbal medication and it was herbal medication that brought antibiotic came into existence to today.
2006-12-02 16:23:20 · answer #3 · answered by kila T 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
In addition to herbs, skin wounds were treated with maggots. The maggots kept the wound clean and killed the infection. They are beginning to use them again in standard medical practice.
2006-12-02 20:13:07 · answer #4 · answered by boogeywoogy 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
They tried to let the body naturally fight them and a lot of them died. You don't hear of typhoid outbreaks anymore or scarlet fever. In the past a lot of children never made it to adulthood and adults didn't live as long as most people today.
2006-12-02 16:20:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
They didn't, matter of fact there was very few infections and those that was there infect with something they simply died.
2006-12-02 16:14:24 · answer #6 · answered by Lisha 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Herbs, potions, even leeches to bleed the infections out...leeches and bleeding killed George Washington.
2006-12-02 16:17:09 · answer #7 · answered by needsumthin2002 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
leaches, blood letting was popular.
2006-12-02 16:17:35 · answer #8 · answered by jazi 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Antibiotics don't cure infections. They cause them. Ever see a lion taking chemicals (antibiotics) into its body? Nope. Ever see a lion with these illnesses? Nope. There ya go.
It's all about the natural methods of healing. Native Americans are also a great example.
2006-12-02 16:13:44 · answer #9 · answered by Gabrielle 5 · 0⤊ 5⤋
They didn't
2006-12-02 16:13:52 · answer #10 · answered by October 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋