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Show SHIFTING WORLD Nobody Worries About Tissick' Now City dwellers of 300 years ago the inhabitants of London in the year 1648, for instance were only half as likely to be killed in accidents ac-cidents as are the metropolites of today. But they were several times as likely to die from tuberculosis or other diseases with such fearful names as spotted fever, purples. rising of the lights, plague in the guts, tissick, imposthume and others, says a study of early and present - day mortality by Northwestern North-western National Life Insurance company. The king's horsemen were the fastest traffic to contend with in 1648. The automobile was still 250 years in the future. - |