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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 1488148" data-attributes="member: 7883">Absolutely, magical cures are better than modern medicine.  And to how many people are they available?How many D&D settings provide medical insurance to peasants?  A Cure Disease spell would cost a peasant their entire earnings for like 3 years, would it not?That tells me that though 100% effective magical medicines are available, 95% of the population won't benefit from them..Our current lifespans are due to medical procedures and care and understanding of cleanliness etc. that just weren't available not too long ago.  In the absence of that, you have plagues, diseases, and people flat out aging faster due to wear and tear that didn't used to exist.  All our medicine allows us to do is have longer old-age years, IMO.  It's not like all the medicine in the world is keeping our hair from going gray until an older age, or wrinkles from appearing, unless you want to count cosmetic surgery and hair colouring, which are not the same thing.We still physically mature and age at roughly the same rate as we did 1500 years ago.Banshee</blockquote>