Many of you have an overly idealized view of medieval society. I'll tell you honestly, your idea of that time is far from reality, like the North Pole is from the South. Open your eyes? And what I'm asking … I'll tell you how it was.
1. Personal Hygiene Today we value personal hygiene, and then people could go from cradle to grave without even submerging in water. Many people believed that bathing was unhealthy, and soaking in water, especially hot water, allowed illness to enter the body. Even if a person decided to take water procedures, he often did not even take off his clothes. God forbid infection.
2. Deodorant How did an 18th century man smell from what we learned in the first point? The smell of a person, in principle, was no different from the smell of a dirty, unwashed goat. Imagine that the first deodorant hit the shelves only in 1888 and was produced under the Mama brand. The era of pure homosapiens is about a century and a half
3. Epilation A hairy medieval woman is a reality, but what we see in films is fiction. It wasn't until the 1920s that body hair removal became common for women. Moreover, this is only in Western countries. Therefore, the fetish of hairy women is far from a fetish, but an everyday occurrence.
4. Toilet The houses stank of urine and feces. Yes Yes. Exactly. There was no running water, and most people relieved themselves in a pot, which could easily be poured out of the window on someone's head. Therefore, the stench was terrible, and it was slippery on the streets, not only in winter
5. Toilet paper Toilet paper was not invented until the late 1800s, did you know? And how did we live without her? The rich could afford the luxury of drying themselves with disposable strips of cloth. The poor used old rags, moss, leaves and good old and trouble-free hands! I'll tell you a secret that the ancient Romans lived even better. They used a cloth on a stick, which was then dipped in a bucket of water.
6. Blood poisoning This was a very popular phenomenon. In order for you to be able to imagine the scale, imagine that the number of deaths from blood poisoning exceeded the number of deaths from cancer by 4 times.
7. Monthly Girls, imagine life during these days. You have about 10-20 pieces of fabric that you must constantly change and wash throughout the day. By the way, the men knew that the entrance to the lady was closed today by the way these washed pieces of fabric were hung on the fence or in the windows.
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8. Dung The street of the medieval city was a pavement with a thick layer of human and animal excrement. The street smelled like a mixture of rotting plants, food, manure, urine and feces. And remember how in films a gentleman throws his coat at a lady's feet so that she crosses a puddle. I think now you can guess what is in this puddle. It is better to leave the coat there …
9. Oral hygiene How did you brush your teeth? And were they cleaned at all? They cleaned, but rarely … How? They took a piece of cloth and rubbed the gums with it. In Italy, the first toothpaste was invented in the early 1700s, but it was not available to the poor due to the high price.
10. Mercury Mercury will help from everything. You have lice - rub in the mercury. Your throat hurts, dilute the mercury and rinse. So don't believe these old stories.