On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 03:37:05 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Sunday, August 20, 2017 at 7:59:55 PM UTC-4, dsi1 wrote:
>
>> Things were a lot simpler back in the old days. People just used film leader
>> or glass darkened with candle soot to view the sun. As far as I know there
>> was no mass epidemic of blindness caused by viewing a solar eclipse. These
>> days, it seen as a serious public health issue.
>
>Not complete blindness, perhaps, but retinal damage nevertheless.
>
>In the old days, it was a lot simpler when doctors didn't wash their
>hands and women died in droves of puerperal fever. Now we know better.

I've been watching a lot of "Who Do You Think You Are" AU UK US NL
lately. It's amazing how many healthy women died during or shortly
after childbirth in the old days.