30 Shocking Hygiene Practices From The Past

These 30 Shocking Hygiene Practices From The Past Are So Gross They’re Funny…

http://www.ya-shocking-hygiene.littlebudha.com/shocking-hygiene-practices/?utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=queen&utm_campaign=shocking-hygiene-practices

And why would we trust that website and click on the link?

Weird name for a site may mean a virus awaits or even a bot.

I'll wait on that site until one of the computer people tell me that it is safe.

If unsure check site through Webinspector as suggested in another topic.

https://app.webinspector.com/recent_detections

I can assure you that the site is safe. I found it while sifting through news stories on Yahoo News.

@ThatAustralian, Thank you for telling us about webinspector. I was never aware of it before your post.

Thank you Australian and Curly. Great site for vital historical knowledge.

I saw the same article the other day when I was cruising Yahoo. Kinda makes you wonder what people 300 (or more) years hence will think about our hygiene practices, eh?

Photo number 16 was something that reminded me of when I was younger. The house I now live in was originally built in 1549 - by a Spanish real estate developer, he bought a stables in the middle of the city and subdivided it into housing - and when I bought it back in 1973 it was quite dilapidated to say the least. After WWII it had been used as a brothel and then occupied by squatters in the days of Love and Peace.

Anyway, our house still had a similar wooden toilet as in the photo. No flushing at all, you had to bring your own water. It also had a wooden cover with handle, presumably to keep the rats from climbing out at night ... ha ha. Other houses in the neighborhood also still had similar wooden privies and we all had our fun stories of tearing them down, cleaning out the accumulated waste and installing modern conveniences. One of our neighbors' wooden toilet wasn't even connected to the sewers, but dropped waste directly into the old vaulted basements where it accumulated in a huge appallingly large pile. Imagine cleaning that out ... 😃

So, just to say, some of these things were not all that long ago in the past as as people might think ... 😃

Oh yes, we didn't move into the house until it was renovated, with a brand porcelain flush toilet and all ...

Sounds like Hercules cleaning out the Aegean stables.

Have you never seen a men's college dormitory after a party?

Well modern healthcare would baulk at some of the practices now, but at the time those would be seen as pefectly acceptable .

Yes we still use Leeches for grafts and reconstruction surgery for Maxfax as the anticoagulant and their "blood sucking" can actually save the graft, which they have done on quite a few occasions ( these producedure/surgeries are long 12-15 hrs and very complicated) so you really want graft viability.

In addition we also increasing using Maggots to debride ( to remove dead, contaminated, or adherent tissue which then aid /promotes healing) wounds, as maggots only eat dead tissue and are very effective at that.

Yes it may seem yuck and repulsive at times but it works and that that is in the best interest of the patient. So a few of these old practices are starting to make a revival. I will say that the Leeches and Maggots are grown in very sterile conditions.

My Norton says it's a malicious website

I backed off when I got the malicious website alerts; Here's another link that seems to be clean - I think it's the same video as the OP's:

https://littlethings.com/lifestyle/shocking-hygiene-practices/285127-22