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Quote (HippoSleek @ July 14 2002,2:17)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">OT: this topic got me to thinking about something - before the industrial revolution, the only way people got maimed was from something like a fall. Now it happens all the time in cars and at work. Imagine having no concept of anything but a natural causes-type death. Weird.</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
Yeah but they had to contend with leprosy, the plague and predation. <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='
'> Don't forget warfare, that maimed tons of people. Also amputation was a common method to repair broken limbs. <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/crazy.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':crazy:'>