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[โ€“] Acters@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

Sure a lot of practical steps to keep people healthy or prevent simple deaths can be taken that most people will know but the difference between doctors back then and now is that in the past they were more akin to faith healers than our current definition of a doctor.