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Originally Posted by tbwinner
Ok, sure. But it definitely wasn't as prevalent. The Google search history graph confirms this.
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As a child my mother, born in 1909, suffered from rheumatic fever which weakened her heart and led to lifelong heart ailments. Quite common before penicillin and long before there was an internet or google.
She was proudly one of the first few regular recipients of open heart surgery at the Mayo Clinic.