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This seems to be the truth... the awful smelly truth!Β
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I don't doubt it. No soft soap or toilet paper will do that to ya. Whenever I for some reason wish I lived in a different time, I remember chamber pots to appreciate today more.Β
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Actually, Personal baths have been around since Roman Emperor Hadrian. Only the wealthy could afford baths and good hygiene. It was the commoner and peasants that stinked. But that problem was solved in some part to France's Napoleon. After declaring himself emperor of France, he introduced to concept of bathing, vaccinations, and clean water to the French commoner. And the US had(again for the wealthy) some sort of water plumbing, but still had outdoor latrines. True and efficient plumbing wasn't until around 15 years after the Civil War.
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Whatever happened to Kevin Bolk? I haven't heard a word from him since he gave us this useless history lesson.Β And he still hasn't finished "Trigger Star".
Did he get bored with cartooning? Did he get a real job? If so, why hasn't he told us?
Or does he just not care anymore?
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Why wouldn't they be, showers weren't invented for a few 100 years and bathing in the water would make them get dysentery due to the lack of toilets as well. So during the winter they buried something else than seeds....
...they buried EACH OTHER.
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It is true. If we went back in time we'd hurl at the stench.
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Indeed. Β It wasn't until the 1920's that the US started to set the health standards that we have today.
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The vikings were quite hygenic. They had weekly baths, washed their faces daily, had tweezers, ear spoons, and strong soap etc. Nothing on the Muslims who used running water and individual baths though.
Love the shading in this one, it has a lot of depth.
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also the Romans and ancient India
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Do I detect just a touch of Kate Beaton's influence here? It's the sort of thing she might write and illustrate, though in a very different style.Β
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Funny thing is that I've actually thought about this before.
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LolΒ Β This actually reminds me of the stinky conditions our forefathersΒ were in at the Constitutional Convention.
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I wouldn't go as far as to say "everyone in history". After all, people in the High middle age had a better hygiene than in the early modern period.
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actually I was taught about how bad they smelled in school. we had learned this hole thing about their bad hygene. it was gross.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Why did this make me laugh so much? XDΒ
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I sure people today don't realize why they wore "powdered white wigs" so long ago... to cover up all the greasy, stinky, lice infested hair... I hate to go all "graphic" on you, but yeah... lice...Β Β
On a lighter note:
Nice piece dude!!!
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks about this stuff.
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This was a time before soap was invented. It must've been pretty hard.
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Everyone loves their own brand, eh? This is magic!
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Except in middle ages England, prior to the Black Death. Inviting house guests to bathe with you, upon inviting them into your home, often was a cultural norm at the time, and the only time in history that the production of soap reached almost industrial levels prior to the industrial revolution. It was Pope Clemont the VI who struck down this practice, saying that communal bathing was immoral. The practice of regular bathing (both alone and communal) got the proverbial nail in the coffin at the time of the Black Death due to popular misunderstandings of how the disease spread. Β
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nothing like bathing only once a year
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The worst thing I think, only washing their hair every 6 months. Rat's nests were found regularly.
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This is something I've actually been thinking about a lot lately. I shudder every time I remember. Hygiene back in the olden days was... not very good
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I guess you can say that history stinks!
I'll escort myself out now...
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Considering people back then were known for having wooden teeth because their real ones rotted away, I'm not really surprised.
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Through most of recorded history, they didn't know about bacteria and actually thought too much bathing was bad for you.
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Maybe that's why so many portraits from the time period had subjects that looked like they were sniffing guano...
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How dare thee accuse those great men of such stench. It was their musk, good sir, and Mr Franklin used it quite often to woo the ladies, the scoundrel.
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If only you could favorite Comments. D:
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XD
Glad someone liked my comment.
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