What would you look like left to nature/200 years ago.

[Coldemort]

Lockdown boredom musings....

Without medical/cosmetic interference what would you now look like?
I'm nearly 40.

I had dental treatment for 4 missing teeth so would have huge gaps in my front teeth.
I've terrible eyesight so without contacts/glasses I'd walk around with a permanent squint and I'd imagine terrible crows feet.
My hair is an uninspiring brown, wouldn't look too different but wouldn't have my highlights.
Body hair..... good god youd be able to plait it. Same with eyebrows. and mostache
I've had a bit of botox so more wrinkly.
I have a skin condition which causes abscesses so without surgical treatment I'd have huge boils/abscesses all down my thighs.
Oh - had a tooth abscess as well so possibly might have lost my teeth by now.
Wouldn't have ears pierced.

So toothless, boily, hairy and squinty! Lush!

Aim of thread wasnt medical, but your responses have made me think.
My condition is lancing abscesses followed by antibiotics. It's a painfull annoyance, but 200 years ago I suppose that may well have been a death sentence too?

Yes if lancing equipment wasn’t clean not everyone died but would have agony no anaesthesia for another 26 years.

Some of you make the early 19th century sound quite Neanderthal! Assuming you didn't die in infancy/childbirth/of something that needs antibiotics or modern medicine - then there's every chance that you'd look pretty much as you do today. Specs/lorgnette instead of my contacts; might have lost a tooth that the dentist patched up; but I'm low maintenance in any century. Dire poverty would be ageing - but it still is today.

Also, they did have cosmetics, hair unguents, deodorant, scissors/tweezers, perfumes - again, assuming that you're not too far down the social ladder. Somebody mentioned shapewear ... that's what stays were for!

I wouldn't be here. I would have died in childbirth and if by some miracle I'd survived having my first baby my third would have done the trick without doubt.

I'd be dead.
Otherwise I'd look the same (during lockdown) a bit more tamed during non-lockdown times!
I get botox done once a year and have had braces.
I'd probably be a bit thinner as scoff too much chocolate.

I do like to play historical death!

I would be dead. I'd have died (definitely) by my early 30s.

These are the things I've had which would have killed me 200 years ago:-

Cancer
Burst Appendix
Meningitis
Pneumonia
Ectopic pregnancy

These are the things that might have killed me:-

Various illnesses I've had antibiotics for.
Septic finger
Dermoid cyst
All sorts of broken bones/accidents that might have gone horribly wrong without medical intervention.

I’d have been dead at the age of 8.

Dead due to congenital abnormality leading to disability.

Probs.

A skeleton. The average life expectancy was probably much lower and I'm 53

Grey hair toothless very dry skin

Dead actually from my health condition!

Doing my family tree right now and it's full of poor Scottish crofters in 18th century - amazing how many got to their 80s and 90s! I doubt I'll see those ages myself...

I would have died at around the time of my birth.