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Originally Posted by fredr123
I tend to agree with what you're saying. Before the arrival of Europeans and their industry, I don't think many native people had to worry about running into contaminated water anyway. Likewise, they probably didn't worry about having to treat many diseases and other ailments since a lot of them didn't exist until the Europeans showed up.
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They still had diseases, but they didn't identify them as diseases of the body, they had different views of sickness and thus, different explantions, and treaments. When Europeans showed up we gave them another way of thinking about it. Of course the specific diseases were different, but to act as though they didn't have illnesses of their own would be idiotic.