How Far We've Come

I often get frustrated because doctors can't diagnose my problem. Today - while searching for a sibling of my mother's who died as an infant - I ran across this list of deaths from the 1850s. Its pretty mind-blowing to see the things that people died from in those days. Infants dying from "teething" and "diarrhea". Adults dying from "consumption." We've certainly come a long way. I have to keep that in mind when diagnoses elude those around me.