It is known that in the Middle Ages people did not pay due attention to their hygiene. For all their luxurious outfits, the rich managed to smell so bad that they themselves fainted!
In Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, personal care was mandatory. In Rome alone, there were several hundred baths, to which people came almost daily. With the flourishing of Christianity, all the ancient terms were destroyed under the pretext that seeing other people's naked bodies is a great sin.
In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, noble gentlemen and ladies washed themselves once every few months, but by the eighteenth century, the adoption of water procedures was completely forgotten. It is known that the King of France, Louis the Fourteenth, took a bath only twice in his life, and he did not like it so much that he gave up washing for the rest of his life.
In the Middle Ages, people did not think about the need to meet their needs in specially designated places. Even in the magnificent Versailles there was no latrine, and the aristocrats did their business in the corridors and corners of the rooms behind curtains.
The wide-brimmed hats popular at the time were not used at all for protection from the sun or rain. People were forced to wear them out of fear that a stream of sewage, poured out by residents of cities directly from their balconies, could fall on their heads.
The medical textbook of Dr. Biltz has survived to this day, where he wrote that "commoners do not dare to wash their bodies in bathtubs or rivers, because from the very birth they did not go into the water." In addition, often the adoption of water procedures was equated with insanity, and it was treated with craniotomy. Not a very pleasant method!