[so_real]

You are not suggesting anti-parasitic drugs reduced the lifespan of the population 200 years ago, are you? Doctors didn't wash their hands before examining patients or performing surgeries 200 years ago. But that doesn't have anything to do with anti-parastic drugs either. Not sure what your point is.

[Lurker]

“You are not suggesting anti-parasitic drugs reduced the lifespan of the population 200 years ago, are you?“

I’m suggesting that the use of these crude drugs did almost nothing to improve lifespan 200 years ago. Improve and reduce are two different things.

I suggest you obtain a dictionary.

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