What Hygiene Was Like in Colonial America
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Date: 2022-12-29
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Paul
I find it hard to believe that cleaning ones self wasnt done more often, and soap want used or rarely at that. They might not of bathed every night, but I think the death toll from diseases would of been much higher then it actually was. I tend to believe hygiene was better then what we believe it was, or are lead to believe it was. They made soap in Early Babylon as early as 2800 BC. Archeologists have found soap-like materials in clay cylinders from that time! So, no I dont believe they ran around unclean like pigs. They might not of understood hand washing and bacteria yet, but I cant see people making babies while smelling like whats on a barns floor. I mean you can only hold your breath for so long. They lived In dirty environments, let fecal waste get into the drinking water, pitched chamber pots in the street, and didnt wash hands between medical procedures. YEP, Im sure they did that. But not wash their face, pits, bums, crotches, and feet? No I dont believe that. Maybe not daily except for maybe the face and hands that was probably at least once a day. Think about it. Your dirt poor, and you sitting down for you gruel nightly meal. Youve been checking the cows for gestation (shoving you arm up cows bums all day to see if theyre pregnant) and your not going to attempt to clean your hands at all? Bull crap! (excuse the pun) your going to clean them! Common sense says youre not going to eat with that smell and material on your hands!
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I find it hard to believe that cleaning ones self wasnt done more often, and soap want used or rarely at that. They might not of bathed every night, but I think the death toll from diseases would of been much higher then it actually was. I tend to believe hygiene was better then what we believe it was, or are lead to believe it was. They made soap in Early Babylon as early as 2800 BC. Archeologists have found soap-like materials in clay cylinders from that time! So, no I dont believe they ran around unclean like pigs. They might not of understood hand washing and bacteria yet, but I cant see people making babies while smelling like whats on a barns floor. I mean you can only hold your breath for so long. They lived In dirty environments, let fecal waste get into the drinking water, pitched chamber pots in the street, and didnt wash hands between medical procedures. YEP, Im sure they did that. But not wash their face, pits, bums, crotches, and feet? No I dont believe that. Maybe not daily except for maybe the face and hands that was probably at least once a day. Think about it. Your dirt poor, and you sitting down for you gruel nightly meal. Youve been checking the cows for gestation (shoving you arm up cows bums all day to see if theyre pregnant) and your not going to attempt to clean your hands at all? Bull crap! (excuse the pun) your going to clean them! Common sense says youre not going to eat with that smell and material on your hands!
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Bonnie
Thank you so much God thank God for the 21st century we have all kinds of soaps deodorants lotions and they're all some parenting free and safe for now to use and we have even pure makeup to wear now bare minerals my favorite it's more natural looking things we take for granted now and makes you want to get up in the morning everyday and say thank you that I can turn on a warm shower jump in there wash real good enjoy bath and body works history was so messed up I didn't know what took so long to come out with plumbing and why did it now you can just push a button have your laundry cleaned push another button have it dried lever either better yet you can ask Siri to do this stuff for you modern technology wow thank God it's a blessing I wouldn't want to have to be around in those days not being able to shave my legs everyday oh hell no
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Thank you so much God thank God for the 21st century we have all kinds of soaps deodorants lotions and they're all some parenting free and safe for now to use and we have even pure makeup to wear now bare minerals my favorite it's more natural looking things we take for granted now and makes you want to get up in the morning everyday and say thank you that I can turn on a warm shower jump in there wash real good enjoy bath and body works history was so messed up I didn't know what took so long to come out with plumbing and why did it now you can just push a button have your laundry cleaned push another button have it dried lever either better yet you can ask Siri to do this stuff for you modern technology wow thank God it's a blessing I wouldn't want to have to be around in those days not being able to shave my legs everyday oh hell no
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Meglet
Apparently Caroline of Brunswick, King George IVs estranged wife, was infamously filthy and unhygienic in 1795 when she came to marry the the Prince of Wales. Its hard to be certain to what extent this was true, as has his powerful and influential friends talk a LOT of trash about her since he absolutely loathed the woman. But one reason he supposedly loathed her was that was she was rather not fresh. Considering he spent their wedding night passed out drunk IN the fireplace, and how grossly obese he later became, seems a little hypocritical. Ive always wondered what exactly her lack of hygiene entailed. Obviously detail isnt common.
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Apparently Caroline of Brunswick, King George IVs estranged wife, was infamously filthy and unhygienic in 1795 when she came to marry the the Prince of Wales. Its hard to be certain to what extent this was true, as has his powerful and influential friends talk a LOT of trash about her since he absolutely loathed the woman. But one reason he supposedly loathed her was that was she was rather not fresh. Considering he spent their wedding night passed out drunk IN the fireplace, and how grossly obese he later became, seems a little hypocritical. Ive always wondered what exactly her lack of hygiene entailed. Obviously detail isnt common.
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Meglet
This is a different era, but I wanted to share that historian Ruth Goodman lives life like a time traveler, living long periods of time as working class British people did in various times in the past. When she lived and washed as a Victorian, she explained that she was surprised by how the old method of frequently changing their body garments - which soaked up much of the dirt and grime - and daily washing of their hands, face, and yes, armpits and private parts, with warm water and soap, just from a basin, was unexpectedly pretty effective even compared to washing by total immersion in a bath or shower.
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This is a different era, but I wanted to share that historian Ruth Goodman lives life like a time traveler, living long periods of time as working class British people did in various times in the past. When she lived and washed as a Victorian, she explained that she was surprised by how the old method of frequently changing their body garments - which soaked up much of the dirt and grime - and daily washing of their hands, face, and yes, armpits and private parts, with warm water and soap, just from a basin, was unexpectedly pretty effective even compared to washing by total immersion in a bath or shower.
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education
Powder wigs helped drive King George mad because of the lead in the powder. Hamilton had at least a fifth of rum beside his bed. Tum was safer than the water. Washington treated his troops with a prick from a needle that was put in open wounds of a person with smallpox. While the colonials were healthy after winter for fighting season the British troops were suffering from smallpox
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Powder wigs helped drive King George mad because of the lead in the powder. Hamilton had at least a fifth of rum beside his bed. Tum was safer than the water. Washington treated his troops with a prick from a needle that was put in open wounds of a person with smallpox. While the colonials were healthy after winter for fighting season the British troops were suffering from smallpox
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Ricky
i love hearing stories about the past, history is really interesting, but videos like this remind me that it would suck to actually be there. I would not be happy if my house, bed, hair and clothes were infested with lice. I live in seattle and the pike place market has an original sign that says sanitary market, I'm happy to live in a time where every market is expected to be sanitary
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i love hearing stories about the past, history is really interesting, but videos like this remind me that it would suck to actually be there. I would not be happy if my house, bed, hair and clothes were infested with lice. I live in seattle and the pike place market has an original sign that says sanitary market, I'm happy to live in a time where every market is expected to be sanitary
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cee
Every time I watch these types of hygiene videos when they get to anything about dental health i just think to myself. I have major pain just because my enamel is slightly worn away. HOW IN THE WORLD did people deal with mouth pain? I can't even imagine. It must've been painful to even eat anything by the time you get old! I'd just want them all taken out at that point
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Every time I watch these types of hygiene videos when they get to anything about dental health i just think to myself. I have major pain just because my enamel is slightly worn away. HOW IN THE WORLD did people deal with mouth pain? I can't even imagine. It must've been painful to even eat anything by the time you get old! I'd just want them all taken out at that point
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Grover
It was surprising that no mention was made of the tons of grain delivered to Washington's troops at Valley Forge during that terrible winter. Washington was so grateful to the Oneida Indians that he deeded a vast swath of what is now New York State all the way up to Lake Ontario to them. Washington said the colonists owed their survival to the Oneidas.
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It was surprising that no mention was made of the tons of grain delivered to Washington's troops at Valley Forge during that terrible winter. Washington was so grateful to the Oneida Indians that he deeded a vast swath of what is now New York State all the way up to Lake Ontario to them. Washington said the colonists owed their survival to the Oneidas.
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Telling
GEORGE WASHINGTON HAD A PUTRID ROTTEN CHEESY STINK COCK AS DID THE MEN OF THE TIME SHIT FARTLBERRYS STUCK TO THE ARSEHOLE SWEATY STINK FORESKINS JUST THANK THE JEW FOR CIRCUMCISIAN OTHERWISE YOU AMERICANS WOULD HAVE ROTTEN COCKS LIKE YOUR FOUNDER THE smegma generation og colonial america
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GEORGE WASHINGTON HAD A PUTRID ROTTEN CHEESY STINK COCK AS DID THE MEN OF THE TIME SHIT FARTLBERRYS STUCK TO THE ARSEHOLE SWEATY STINK FORESKINS JUST THANK THE JEW FOR CIRCUMCISIAN OTHERWISE YOU AMERICANS WOULD HAVE ROTTEN COCKS LIKE YOUR FOUNDER THE smegma generation og colonial america
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Capri486
I feel as the conclusion for woman using smells as a mechanism for self defense had a poor conclusion. I feel like that would have been a great moment to highlight that woman used this as a mode of protection rather than showing a modern women rolling around in dirt. Crude analysis
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I feel as the conclusion for woman using smells as a mechanism for self defense had a poor conclusion. I feel like that would have been a great moment to highlight that woman used this as a mode of protection rather than showing a modern women rolling around in dirt. Crude analysis
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Linda
I was researching the topic of colonial America clothing and it was mentioned that since they knew nothing about the link between health and germs, they would go as long as a month without washing hair or bathing or even washing clothes.
Imagine the foul air in enclosed places
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I was researching the topic of colonial America clothing and it was mentioned that since they knew nothing about the link between health and germs, they would go as long as a month without washing hair or bathing or even washing clothes.
Imagine the foul air in enclosed places
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Just
A: I love that dish of yours on display!
B: oh yes! that actually has some historical significance. it was actually dug out of a colonial toilet. Colonial! think of the stories it could tell!
A: I ugh take it back, I hate your dish and we caint be freinds anymore. :
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A: I love that dish of yours on display!
B: oh yes! that actually has some historical significance. it was actually dug out of a colonial toilet. Colonial! think of the stories it could tell!
A: I ugh take it back, I hate your dish and we caint be freinds anymore. :
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Galina
This is before the germ theory. Our forefathers were pretty gross. I wonder how women who periods and childbirth felt. Infant mortatlity was bad and infectious diseases were rampant. I ook at the photos of our US Presidents in the 1800s and they looked unclean.
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This is before the germ theory. Our forefathers were pretty gross. I wonder how women who periods and childbirth felt. Infant mortatlity was bad and infectious diseases were rampant. I ook at the photos of our US Presidents in the 1800s and they looked unclean.
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Harley
Movies have made people think the past was like today with different stuff. Beautiful actresses and ripped actors is fancy clothes with nice teeth having fun adventures. Lol. If you had a time machine you would spend 10 min in the past and be like nope Im out.
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Movies have made people think the past was like today with different stuff. Beautiful actresses and ripped actors is fancy clothes with nice teeth having fun adventures. Lol. If you had a time machine you would spend 10 min in the past and be like nope Im out.
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AlvinAmerica
I have just found you and watched a few of your videos.
Job well done!
I am somewhat surprised at seeing the many thousands of views,
but only a few thousands of thumbs up.
Cheap ass people too lazy to give an appreciation.
Carry on.
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I have just found you and watched a few of your videos.
Job well done!
I am somewhat surprised at seeing the many thousands of views,
but only a few thousands of thumbs up.
Cheap ass people too lazy to give an appreciation.
Carry on.
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Robert
I've been told that I have offensive body odor. That's while taking showers every day. Every time I've been told that, it was less than an hour after showering. i can only imagine what I would have smelled like during the colonial period!
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I've been told that I have offensive body odor. That's while taking showers every day. Every time I've been told that, it was less than an hour after showering. i can only imagine what I would have smelled like during the colonial period!
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laura
now when you go to the hospital you get a box of wipes. that is what the hospital now calls a bed bath. and you don; t get clean sheets every day unless they get wet or dirty that you can see. we have gone in reverse in hospitals.
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now when you go to the hospital you get a box of wipes. that is what the hospital now calls a bed bath. and you don; t get clean sheets every day unless they get wet or dirty that you can see. we have gone in reverse in hospitals.
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Audrey
After watching this I want to take a shower. I mean I sometimes go 2 days without a shower (because dry winter) but I always wear deodorant and brush my teeth. It is gross to not take a full bath/shower and was your hair.
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After watching this I want to take a shower. I mean I sometimes go 2 days without a shower (because dry winter) but I always wear deodorant and brush my teeth. It is gross to not take a full bath/shower and was your hair.
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Leah
East coast Native American hygiene, the coloniest made fun of them for cleaning so much and they would wash their homes in water boiled in pine (pinesol) and would take bark from aspen trees for pain (aspirin)
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East coast Native American hygiene, the coloniest made fun of them for cleaning so much and they would wash their homes in water boiled in pine (pinesol) and would take bark from aspen trees for pain (aspirin)
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Nova
George Washington had dentures made out of slave teeth pulled forcibly from his own slaves. They were not made out of metal. They were not wood. They did not have wires hooked to them and he deserved the pain
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George Washington had dentures made out of slave teeth pulled forcibly from his own slaves. They were not made out of metal. They were not wood. They did not have wires hooked to them and he deserved the pain
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