A couple of days ago in my January 2023 Twitter round-up, I included a graph showing the steep drop in child mortality that started around 1900 worldwide.
Today I saw this old ad, shared by Special Collections at the University of Chicago, which made me think once again about what everyday life must have been like for parents before that drop happened:
The ad ran in what Special Collections described as a "cheap 1886 edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein."
They go on to point out that "'Has no effect except on worms' does not instill confidence."
And worms were among the lesser problems your kids could have.
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