Top 10 Ways The Past Was WAY MORE AWFUL Than You Think

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Some people have the nerve to think that society has lost something important that it had in the past. Their nostalgia makes them think that they’d actually like to live in or at least visit years gone by. Any historian who really digs into the nit and grit of the past will tell you that the past was so much worse than the present, pretty much across the board. Not just in the obvious, prominent ways, but in matters that you’d take for granted.

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10. Food Variation
9. Furniture was Horrible
8. Night Soil Problems
7. Just Being a Woman was Basically a Medical Problem
6. Horse Manure
5. Inconvenient Architecture
4. Lack of Reliable Anesthetics
3. Entire Families Shared a Bed
2. Constant Crisis Level Pollution
1. Regular Famines

Source/Further reading:

http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/famine/introduction.htm
https://books.google.com/books?id=h_cR-s2LyxoC&pg=PA85&lpg=PA85&dq=no+refrigeration+sickness+regular+nineteenth+century&source=bl&ots=MihKfgrEvn&sig=0lGevuJZyhvGSIWcvuUdTW0eXlY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwif5pP2vqDKAhWBaT4KHfceAwUQ6AEIIzAB#v=onepage&q=no%20refrigeration%20sickness%20regular%20nineteenth%20century&f=false
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21689069
http://www.antiques-art-collectibles.com/collectible/furniture/upholstered_chair.html
http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2015/07/28/prolonged-standing-health-problems/
https://books.google.com/books?id=RLo5AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA29&dq=Furniture+worse+past+padding&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjbyNuQ05_KAhWDPj4KHZuDCQc4ChDoAQg0MAE#v=onepage&q=Furniture%20worse%20past%20padding&f=false
https://books.google.com/books?id=4u0UAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA381&lpg=PA381&dq=Night+Soil+men+dangerous&source=bl&ots=qRekBiaIhX&sig=YII7izZlry9v6eSnNQBzoEjaXsA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwimsv-eoKLKAhXEGh4KHb0TBnoQ6AEIMDAD#v=onepage&q=Night%20Soil%20men%20dangerous&f=false
http://www.penguin.com/ajax/books/excerpt/9781594482694
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/11/16/hosed
http://qi.com/infocloud/horses
http://nypost.com/2014/08/10/manhattan-stinks-borough-worst-smelling-in-nyc-city-data/
https://books.google.com/books?id=3V5Br3K5Ps4C&pg=PT123&lpg=PT123&dq=at+home+bill+bryson+doors+expensive&source=bl&ots=f17iIi3GPI&sig=-r9ufgl7NfJznGXQbrNNhMXOtqo&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjpm72f3qDKAhVBpx4KHa-qBHYQ6AEIQzAF#v=onepage&q=at%20home%20bill%20bryson%20doors%20expensive&f=false
https://books.google.com/books?id=KDi8CB3B6vgC&pg=PA80&lpg=PA80&dq=ancient+anesthetics&source=bl&ots=GgJ-X1cvUo&sig=w-yjNc1XD7PilI3MvTBcq4o8_Yc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjNzoWWyqLKAhVDXR4KHbDbAXM4FBDoAQgiMAE#v=onepage&q=ancient%20anesthetics&f=false
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/22/health/fear-of-pain-may-be-worse-than-pain-itself.html
http://neurosurgery.mgh.harvard.edu/history/beforeth.htm
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/the-painful-story-behind-modern-anesthesia/
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/10/21/family-co-sleeping-arrangement-draws-attention/74316100/
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130273636
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/18/china-air-pollution-far-worse-than-thought-study.html
http://www.npr.org/2015/03/12/392332431/dirty-old-london-a-history-of-the-victorians-infamous-filth
https://books.google.com/books?id=UeGlmU2F8_8C&pg=PA192&lpg=PA192&dq=Germany+pollution+1800s&source=bl&ots=MIMh7HecWo&sig=llIMkl6y_YYCD9RcicLH92ckAyM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiBwOXB0qLKAhWSth4KHVYdAdE4ChDoAQghMAE#v=onepage&q=Germany%20pollution%201800s&f=false
https://books.google.com/books?id=2mhGAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA155&lpg=RA1-PA155&dq=famine+every+ten+years&source=bl&ots=gMYqOfFaXt&sig=coUSc4ka2QEWuvelmyjcDaPrnXM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjG0szW4ZrKAhWMKCYKHaHOD184ChDoAQghMAI#v=onepage&q=famine%20every%20ten%20years&f=false

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