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MEDIEVAL HYGIENE
Period
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During this period, people had very different habits and ideas from ours.
Use of clothes
The people didn't change their rope ofently,
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Water Supply
Settlements
Indeed, most settlements had developed where they had precisely because of the proximity of a reliable water source.
Availability
Water was available in villages from nearby springs, rivers, lakes, wells and cisterns.
Castles
Castles were provided with additional water from masonry-lined wells sunk into their interior courtyards.
(Example) : Rochester, England.
Even had the possibility to draw up water from the well at every level of the keep using a system of buckets and ropes.
Personal Hygiene
With baths seen as a luxury given the cost of fuel to heat the water, monks.
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Lord
A lord might have a padded bath for extra comfort and he usually travelled with one, such was the uncertainty of finding the convenience on one’s travels.
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Teeth habits
When someone got a toothache, the medieval dentists thought it was caused by worms.
was to burn a candle close to the teeth, and have a bowl of water under your mouth
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Toilets
Villages
The peasantry used a cesspit for their own waste, which might then be taken and spread on the fields as a fertiliser.
Small Huts
A wooden bench with a hole in it some comfort (as well as reducing the chances of falling into the cesspit).
Schedule
Chamber pots were used at night and then emptied into the cesspit. Without toilet paper, or really paper of any kind, people had to make do with a handful of hay, grass, straw or moss.
Plague & Diseases
Low Standards
The low standards of medieval hygiene certainly helped it along although there were other factors such as a complete lack of understanding of what caused it and the absence of effective quarantines.
Diseases
In medieval times many flea borne diseases emerged in rats, the bubonic plague killed between 30% and 50% of the population wherever it took hold.
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