Medieval skunk: how people lived without bathing

It is known that in the Middle ages people did not pay the proper attention to hygiene. For all its luxurious dresses rich managed to smell so bad that Sami fainted! The website invites the reader to become acquainted with the horrific examples of unsanitary conditions of the middle Ages.





In Ancient Greece and Rome, the care was required. In Rome, there were several hundred bath-houses, in which people came almost daily. With the rise of Christianity all ancient baths were destroyed under the pretext that to see other people's naked bodies — a great sin.

In the fifteenth and sixteenth century, noble ladies and gentlemen bathed once every few months, but by the eighteenth century, the adoption of water treatments, and all was forgotten. It is known that the king of France, Louis XIV took a bath only twice in my life, and that he didn't like that he refused to wash the rest of your life.

In the Middle ages people thought that the need to relieve in specially designated areas. Even in the magnificent Versailles was not latrines, and the aristocracy did their work in the hallways and corners of rooms behind the curtains.

Popular hats with a wide brim was not used for protection from sun or rain. People were forced to wear them for fear of the fact that their head could fall in the flow of sewage, poured out the inhabitants of the cities right from their private balconies.

Before our time preserved medical textbook Dr. Railing, where he wrote that "the common people dare not wash their bodies in bathrooms or rivers, because since birth they didn't go in the water." In addition, often the adoption of water treatments was equated with madness, and treated him with craniotomy. Not a very pleasant way!

via factroom.ru