The Life Of A Peasant By Sarz Davis Analysis

The most intriguing article within the stimulating documents was William Stearns Davis’ “The Life of a Peasant” (Davis, 1922). Which offers an unaltered view of the lives of peasants in the middle ages. In his article, Davis introduces the idea of deadly bacteria through a description of the Black Plague, a disease caused by the bacterium named Yersinia Pestis. The Black Plague devastated the kingdoms of the middle ages. Yersinia Pestis was able to do this as at the time of its major outbreak, poor hygiene was commonplace, and antibiotics were non-existent. The question that stood out from the article was “To what extent, would it be possible for superbugs to create an environment today absent of effective antibiotics?”

Superbugs, bacteria

Simple infections are no longer death sentences, however, immunities to these antibiotics are appearing. The use of antibiotics save lives by crippling the ability of bacteria to damage the human body, and antibodies act as a sidekick to the immune system when fighting off life-threatening illnesses. In “The Life of a Peasant”, William Stearns Davis (1922) focuses on what life would be like for the lowest tier of people in a feudalistic state, and he concluded that often in a world without antibiotics, people lose their lives to easily preventable medical conditions, regardless of whether they are a king or a peasant. Antibiotics are used to fight infections that could otherwise prove deadly. In a time before antibiotics, life was much more difficult for all involved. Before antibiotics were used, many died of simple cuts or scratches that later got infected. If action is not taken, superbugs could grow immune to all of the antibiotics we possess. Superbugs are becoming immune to the ways we fight them, which forecasts a world without the ability to fight these superbugs. In the article “Superbugs Causing Infections at a Tertiary Care Hospital and the Return of Pre-Antibiotic Era!” Kalyan Rajkumar (2016), associate professor of microbiology at King George 's Medical University, as well as his research team, discusses the prevalence of a strain of E. coli that is mostly immune to the majority of current

Antibiotics are often used more and more often indiscriminately, as patients believe that they are capable of prescribing antibiotics to themselves without actual medical need. In the journal article entitled “The Responses of Medical General Practitioners to Unreasonable Patient Demand for Antibiotics - A Study of Medical Ethics Using Immersive Virtual Reality”, Xueni Pan (2016), a member of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of London and leader of this study, found that patients were more often requesting antibiotics for even minor conditions, and doctors were feeling more obliged to prescribe these antibiotics to avoid losing their patients. The practice of overprescribing antibiotics makes us healthier only in the short term, as this strategy heavily invests in the present well-being over the future, which could possibly create problems. In the article “The Spread of Superbugs,” Nicholas D. Kristof (2010) writes about the effects of the infection of Thomas M. Dukes, who was infected with E. Coli that was nearly untreatable. This article points out the individual effects that superbugs can carry, and how finding ways to fight superbugs is an issue that needs to be addressed in the near future. Education could easily help the populace in identifying the existence of superbugs