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MEDIEVAL HYGIENE - Coggle Diagram
MEDIEVAL HYGIENE
Facial Hygiene
These people were not used to brushing their teeth so often and when they did, they did it with materials that were not optimal
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There were no dentists as such, although tooth removers did. They went from town to town tearing off those pieces that caused pain. During the operation the drum was played to silence the screams of pain from the patients.
TAKING A BATH
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Public baths were quite common in the middle within public bathhouses, the church built public bathing separeting men from women. This was the only option for people who did not have a bath at home
In the late middle age, in the 14th century, those baths were extremely dangerous as the bubonic pleague put at risk any person who baths in those places
TOILETS
In the casttle
It was a hole into a cesspit at the foot of the castle walls or into the moat itself, they were called latrines
In towns
People get themselves their own privy in the bakc-yard or even inside the house, draining off the waste into the garden. It was used as
Lower class people often shared the same outside toilet with many others leading the waste to a communal cesspit.
The Diseases
The dishes and cutlery were made of tin, a metal that rusts quickly. So, poisoning and narcolepsy were two very frequent diseases in the Middle Ages
The tuberculosis
It is an infectious disease caused mainly by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and depending on the organ it affects, it will produce a series of symptoms of great variety.
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Just by breathing the same air that a person with tuberculosis breathes, a person can become infected.
WATER SUPPLY
Water was only accessible nearby cisterns, wells, lakes, rivers and springs. Some houses were smartly built close to those places to have available water.
Settlements nearby coastlines or rivers would trade water so fortunately, not everybody lacked this source