Early Health and Medicine Today our personal health is often something we take for granted, because over the years we have developed more advanced vitimens, medicines, and cures for numerous sicknesses. In the early days, getting sick was much more terrifying than it is today. The cures for diseases were not much healthier than the diseases themselves. Any illness in the early 19th century could be very serious , no matter how big or small. For example, today cancer is considered a very serious disease because we have yet to discover an absolute cause or cure. Altough, centuries ago people were not aware of what caused a a common cold or simpl