> watching too many of your children die before their 4th birthday
It was that much better for aristocracy/middle class. Obviously access to better nutrition and conditions improved the chances of survival. However mortality was still huge and not really that distinguishable between social classes from a modern perspective.
> True medicine was not there, surgery unheard of for the peasant class
Which might have been a good thing in some cases. For many illnesses and diseases the methods used by highly paid 'doctors' might have as well done more harm than good.
I agree with the general sentiment however. Yet in many ways life for upper classes wasn't that great either.
Yes, the upper class was actually endlessly tormented by doctors during most of history. Until germ theory you would generally have been better off avoiding them.
It was that much better for aristocracy/middle class. Obviously access to better nutrition and conditions improved the chances of survival. However mortality was still huge and not really that distinguishable between social classes from a modern perspective.
> True medicine was not there, surgery unheard of for the peasant class
Which might have been a good thing in some cases. For many illnesses and diseases the methods used by highly paid 'doctors' might have as well done more harm than good.
I agree with the general sentiment however. Yet in many ways life for upper classes wasn't that great either.