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In all historical periods people tend to adapt to diseases and causes of death that were familiar and unchanging part of everyone’s experience and with which they grew up. /1
Only sudden crises in mortality, especially if they bear a foreign label (French pox, Asiatic cholera, Spanish flu) inspire terror. /2
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One of the pillars that belief in Medicine rests on is imaginary control of childbirth. We collectively believe that women died in birth right and left. Importantly that women themselves were terrified of childbirth. /3
