People from that time had all kinds of maladies. Life was tough with periods of starvation. What was the life expectancy? 40 years?
Infant mortality rate was probably pretty high too.
Folks: quality of life improved a little over 100 year ago with gradual improvements in medicine and food production.
100 years vs the rest of humanity wrought with starvation, diseases, ....
How quickly this can all change, too.
They had a higher than modern infant mortality. Life expectancy prabably wasn't that far off the modern valley, perhaps it was ten or so years lower. The most common kind of doctor in the Roman Empire was the eye doctor, probably due to staying indoors (hmm...) and the use of various burning things for lighting (lots of crud in the air). Food supply was great, Roman famine wasn't common at all.
People are largely ignorant of history and unaware of how special modern civilization really is.