Features of hygiene in the past of mankind

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Features of hygiene in the past of mankind

Сообщение HainanWel.com(e)! » 11 июн 2016, 13:39

Love we romanticize the past, of course. Knights, princesses, philosophers, Rome, Paris romance. In fact, everything was very, very different.

Pompeii looked like a giant garbage dump

Residents and guests of Pompeii and did not think about the organization of waste collection crews. They did not even try elementary bury garbage. All waste is thrown directly at his feet. The narrow streets, alleys and even the local cemetery were littered with broken pottery, ruins of buildings, half-eaten food and decaying horse carcasses.

Even inside the buildings, everything was about the same. Archaeologists have gathered tens of evidence that the inhabitants of Pompeii did not see differences between their homes and the huge garbage buckets. Rotting food remained on the floor, and the whole mountain of household waste were near sources of drinking water.


millions of parasites live in the bodies of the Vikings

Given that they lived next to livestock, it can be concluded that the Vikings were infected with all sorts of parasites in early childhood. And by the time adulthood their bodies were infested with these creatures, which you will not find even in horror movies. Archaeologists studying the diet of the ancient Scandinavians often find eggs, round worm infected or, for example, liver fluke.

In feces, about belonging to the XI century, scientists discovered hlystovika - a parasite that can make life unbearable. In addition to the severe form of diarrhea, flatulence, and painful stools, the Vikings suffered from problems such as delayed cognitive development and a lack of growth hormone.
A terrible stench of medieval London

Medieval London unbearable Raziel.

All the streets were literally filled with excrement, rotting food and the remains of dead animals. In some places, this explosive mixture resulted in a terrible smell so that even stay there was impossible.

With Thames fared too badly. Butchers meat rot thrown into the river, and the blood poured out on the beach. In the XIV century, the stench became so unbearable that the king has forbidden to kill animals within the city.

Europe during the Renaissance was suffering from syphilis

In 1495, French soldiers brought syphilis. This terrible disease in the Renaissance surpassed in scale modern AIDS pandemic. Disgusting oozing ulcers covered the whole body of people, their hair fell out, and the flesh would rot away literally to the bone. There was no public hospitals, so people have picked up the terrible "French disease", painfully dying in the middle of the streets.
The Greek wine was disgusting taste

Unfortunately, the Greeks did not know how to store wine for a long time. Therefore, the ancient vintners have used all sorts of tricks to sell sour and fermented product. It was normal to add the wine, such as a resin or marble dust. Someone just left the wine in the courtyard under the scorching rays of the sun, where it could turn sour for months. As a result, the consistency of the wine reminiscent of tar. It is also known that the ancient Greeks sometimes it diluted the salty sea water.

Personal hygiene in the XVIII century, no one is not particularly concerned with

Imagine that you are surrounded by people who are not shy, I'm sorry to spoil the air in public, picking his nose, spit on the floor even in the premises and go to the toilet in a more in front of strangers. In England, the XVIII century such behavior was in the order of things.

For most people of the era "personal hygiene" has except beautiful expression, the meaning of which they are not really understood. No one would have looked at your face crooked if you came to visit, eat lunch all hands, wiped them on his shirt, then belched loudly, and finally a juicy spat on the floor.

Even in the homes of the upper classes it was not better. Speaking after dinner, the hosts could get pot and make it easier on the mind of the guests.

In ancient Mesopotamia, there were too many pests

Pompeii and medieval London - are not the only places where sanitation nobody cares. It deserves a place on this list, and ancient Mesopotamia. The inevitable consequence of the neglect of sanitation were pests that lived alongside humans in large quantities.

In order to somehow get rid of mountains of waste, the inhabitants of Mesopotamia were allowed to wild dogs and pigs rummage through heaps of street debris. Archaeologists claim that the animals hosted anywhere. Even wild pigs could safely wander through the royal palace.

Jaws dead people replaced their rotten teeth

In the early 19th century, the British were very much afraid of rotten teeth. And considering that the seal then still had not been invented, and regular brushing people themselves did not burden, a terrible smile destroyed the lives of many people. But suddenly, after the battle of Waterloo in 1815, it turned out that on the battlefield left tens of thousands of corpses of young men, many of whom were in the mouth perfectly healthy teeth.
This was followed by one of the major breakthroughs in the dental industry. Dentures made from the jaws of corpses suddenly become an affordable commodity. For many years, people are willing to wear the jaws of soldiers killed in the Battle of Waterloo. Only when a well-known physician Claudius Ash created the first dentures made of porcelain (it happened in 1835), about this terrible fashion a little forgotten.

Toilet paper, leaves splinters in the fifth point

Some 100 years ago, a visit to the restroom was not very enjoyable. To wipe away the time used old newspapers or magazines. Farmer's Almanac was made specifically with a small hole, through which it can be convenient to hang in the dressing room, flip through the pages interesting and uninteresting immediately wipe.

It will be ugly blame people neglecting toilet paper, since about the middle of the 30s of the last century its use has led to the fact that in the fifth point and then stabbed a splinter of wood chips.

Roman toilets were a living hell

In ancient Rome, the expression "public toilet" taken very literally. Try to imagine a group of fifty people sitting in a circle (most often - all shoulder to shoulder) and quietly doing their job. Disgusting? But this is only the beginning. Wipe with a sponge had a total, no less dirty than the toilet.

Free hole went straight into the dark drainage channels, in which lived the most disgusting insects. And because of the accumulation of methane hole at any moment it could explode. Thus, the normal act of defecation in the game turned into a kind of Russian roulette.
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