20 Gross Vintage Hygiene Trends

[@xRepoUKx]

"There was no toilet paper before the invention of toilet paper". No shit Sherlock 🤣

[@FactsVerse]

Lol Thanks for watching, Repo!

[@stephanielarr6511]

They didn't say it like that.

[@ravenlorans]

No, Lots of Shit left over Sherlock.

[@Nrvsmum73]

This is where you get the shit stick, hence, "He got the shit end of the stick." People used sticks wrapped with cloth, lambs wool, moss and other things to wipe their behinds in Roman times. Many times the shit end of the stick was rinsed and reused. :/

[@ladybhive1210]

🤣

[@thatfireinside1106]

The scary part about this video is that all these practices were very cutting edge back then, they actually thought they were doing what was best. Makes you wonder what we are doing right now that will make future generations cringe.

[@lozzylols]

I often think that, about fashion too. What are we wearing now that we will laugh at in about 20 years time!

[@thatfireinside1106]

@@lozzylols Yeah, technology too. I wonder what they will think about our 'smart' phones. I guess they won't be so smart then. Even these tech companies will be dinosaurs one day

[@ellavateyourselftarotwdken7869]

Amen

[@juliegosselin6105]

This 100 percent

[@trickyricky12147]

@@lozzylols We will probably laugh about masks 20 years from now.

[@dearprudence2260]

In ten years, in another 100, just like you're hearing now, "I can't believe people behaved like that." People will say the same of us.

[@kenlompart9905]

I already can't believe that many women today inject poison into their bodies to make their asses and lips huge.

[@fredneecher1746]

Some of us are saying it already.

[@musamadlala8754]

Hahaha😂😂😂

[@trickyricky12147]

Some of us say it already

[@elainecooke156]

Well they are already realising the low fat diet advice was based on flawed research and has probably significantly contributed to the diabetes and obesity epidemic and that 'excessive' hygiene for babies may be causing increased levels of allergies and hypersensitive immune system problems.

[@brucepeterson6344]

"Lead contains high levels of arsenic?" No. Lead is an element. It contains nothing but lead. Arsenic is also an element. It contains nothing but arsenic. These two elements are both heavy metals. They are both, individually, highly toxic.

[@louistournas120]

It's not the elements (Pb and As) that are toxic, It's their compounds. The Pb(2+) cation effects nerve cells. I'm not sure what the As cation effects.

[@gideonwilson6989]

@@louistournas120 *affects

[@louieg7676]

I was about to comment on that. How the hell would an element contain another element? 🤣 Anyway, Lead alone is a very toxic material. Businesses with employees who deal with lead on a daily basis are required to test their employees for levels of Lead in their blood annually.

[@GallumA]

@@gideonwilson6989 effects*.

[@gideonwilson6989]

@@GallumA wrong.

[@annab6726]

Sterilized leeches are still used in medicine today - especially in transplanted digit cases as the leeches help prevent clotting and let the blood flow reach the digits.

[@navyboymommygramma]

Also maggots are still used to help save a person from losing a limb to gangrene. The flies are raised under sterile conditions so all is well and safe.

[@annieoakley2925]

The people of the middle ages did not think they had too much blood. They used them to draw the the "bad humors" from the body.

[@charliewyler800]

@@annieoakley2925 actually, he is more correct than you are.

[@LD-tk7qf]

I would rather loose a digit

[@blueecho9792]

@@charliewyler800 who is he?

[@Bella_Obscura]

Erm….I’m pretty sure cauterizing wounds is still a thing. Also, siblings sharing a bath and the use of leaches….that’s still a thing too.

[@jataim4197]

Yep! I did/do 'leech' therapy at a teaching hospital. Used for having re-attached digits and body parts that need blood flow. The leech is put on the area and bam----blood flow thanks to leeches!! :) I even had a nick name: "The Leech Queen"!--as it was my duty to 'care and feed' the sterile leeches on the floor, kept in the fridge until there 'time' was called upon to 'die with dignity' by 'leeching' a patient!! Then! Sadly, had to die! Now a 'bio-hazard' they were given an 'alcohol' bath and burned up in with other 'bio-hazard' waste! They were brave "Leech Lads!"

[@suzisaintjames]

Now days they use electric or lasers to cauterize as they cut. 💖🌞🌵😷

[@harmony331000]

I’m an RN in the OR and I work with a plastic surgeon that uses leeches to this day to increase blood flow to delicate hand structures post operatively and it’s 2021 lol!

[@iggyblitz8739]

WTF ?, how backwards.

[@the_other_katy]

They’re used in plastic surgery procedures too. (eg: rhinoplasty) I believe cautery is still used as well. It’s just generally used very sparingly.But I’m sure anyone who watches TV knows that. 😋

[@artificiallyunintelligent4537]

@@the_other_katy Aren’t vasectomies generally done with cauterization?

[@TheLastSpartan04]

Interesting. Are those leeches “single use”?

[@mdlclassguymdlclassguy6488]

Diabetics with foot infections or treated with maggots to eat the dead and infectious tissue, sounds gross but apparently it's effective and preferably leg amputation

[@OneIotaOfaDifference]

I was a child of the '50s and in our large family, the kids bathed together to save on the expense of hot water. Our parents bathed separately out of necessity so one of them was always available to watch after us kids, but saving on the expense of hot water was a big deal for most households back then, so the practice of sharing the same bath is not all that old, and probably still practiced.

[@chrissiewindsor]

Al Dee oh, you brought back some memories! When I was very young we bathed in a tin bath in front of the fire, one in, one out, were then wrapped up in brushed cotton nighties, in winter last year’s best cardi became this years bed cardi. There was a “One size fits all” duffel coat behind the back door if anyone needed the loo at the bottom of the yard, though we kids had the luxury of a “guzunder” or potty under the bed. Our next house had, luxury of luxuries, a huge bathtub in which we were bathed two at a time, or sometimes we all jumped in. When my Grandad babysat for us, he would have a bath. He had a wonderful bass baritone singing voice & I used to sit on the landing listening to him. Oh, such happy days. We didn’t have a lot but we had everything we needed. We were so lucky to have such great parents, I’m old and ill now, but I have so many golden memories. Thank you for reminding me.

[@OneIotaOfaDifference]

@@chrissiewindsor -- your response brought back fond memories as well - like these that fit the theme here: There's no way to make it a tiny snippet, but here it is, and I hope it's entertaining: Many of our relatives had farms. One family of relatives had a farm that was still much as it was when they established it in the '20s. The only modern conveniences they had was electricity that they used for lights, fans, and to run a refrigerator. The kitchen iron stove and the home's iron heater in the living room both burned wood for heat. Their water source was from a well with a manual lever water pump mounted on the kitchen counter next to the sink, and one in the backyard near the livestock pins. Their toilet was an outhouse, with pee-pots under the bed for night relief. Their bathtub was an oval galvanized steel trough on the back porch, which was the same as the ones in the stables and pins as the livestock drinking trough. One summer when I was twelve, that uncle got badly injured and spent a week in the hospital and several weeks in a convalescent home recovering. This was in the early 60's and by that time, that aunt and uncle were up there in age. All of their kids were grown and gone except for their youngest - a daughter who was in her late teens - separated in age to her next oldest sibling by almost ten years. She was a third or fourth cousin to me. I was 'drafted' to go live with my aunt and cousin on their farm to do the work my uncle normally did. My aunt did what she could do, (she was an outstanding cook), and my cousin and I did the rest - fed the chickens, gathered the eggs, slopped the hogs, brought the milk cow in for milking, which she did, herded the cattle from one field to another when needed and doing field work with the tractor and its many attachments, all of which she and I did together, and if we needed to pee, we did it wherever we were, which was a new experience for me. The work was dirty and certainly wasn't easy, but I loved it, because it was earthy work that put you close to mother nature at all times. By the end of my first day there, I was introduced to everything about how their farm works and how it was to live without some modern conveniences. When we finished the days work, we were quite dirty - as we were every day after all the work was done - and we were not allowed inside the house until we were clean, and at lunch time, we ate on the back porch because we were already too dirty to come inside. There was a turn-valve on the hand pump in the kitchen that directed the water either to the spout that went into the sink or to a side connection where a hose - about twice as big around as garden hose - was attached that went through a sealed hole in the back wall and hung down into the tub (a super modern convenience of the past that saved having to fill up the tub one bucket at a time). I followed my cousin's lead as I did with everything else. We stripped off everything and as my aunt worked the water pump in the kitchen, we hosed each other down to wash away the visible mud and dirt while standing on the porch and then put the hose in the tub to fill it with about a foot of water, got in together and bathed ourselves with the lye soap and then stepped out and opened the valve at the bottom of the tub to drain it. There were cotton cloths - that looked like they were once baby diapers - hanging on hooks on the porch wall. She said I could use them to dry if I want, but she prefers to air-dry, so I did the same. We leaned against the tub and chatted until we were dry enough to go inside without leaving puddles. We picked up our discarded clothes, placed them in a straw basket, and went inside. That's when I discovered she didn't get dressed again until the next morning, and so I did the same, and my aunt didn't say anything or react in any way about it that I could discern, so I figured it must be a common thing in their home. I was always smaller than other boys my age in height and weight until I hit my growth spurt at thirteen, but I always enjoyed physically working hard, which I did from a young age, so I was a lot stronger than I looked and a lot stronger than most boys my age, making it easy for me to keep up with the hard farm work - which surprised my aunt and cousin - and that pleased me. Even though my stature was small for being twelve, I went through puberty rather early and was very close to being fully developed when I went to work on their farm, which also surprised my aunt and cousin, and yes; I naturally reacted to my cousins beauty, which they both obviously enjoyed seeing, but soon got used to it. The old farmhouse had two bedrooms, the larger of the two was where the children slept. I was told they shared three beds all through growing up, but by the time their youngest daughter was the only one left at home, there was only one bed left in that room. The other places to sleep was with my aunt or a lumpy couch. My cousin invited me to share the bed with her, and so I did. She and I shared other things I can't include here. -- And so that summer was indeed quite an experience for me in a lot of the old ways. Ah yes, the memories, which we all should preserve as best we can, as they are all we have that can't be taken by anyone else. And the best way to do that is to share them with others.

[@franceskronenwett3539]

When we were small back in the fifties and sixties my younger sister and I used to share a bath once a week, normally on Saturday evenings. Heating up the water was too expensive for a daily bath.

[@johnsandiwoods8112]

In hindsight I don’t understand why everybody did dent take a shower I have t used a bath for 50 years

[@Hinatachan360]

I'm the only girl with 6 brothers. I had to bathe with my younger brothers until I started puberty at 9 years old. I hated bathing with one of my younger brothers because when he was a toddler her would go to the bathroom in the tub. I would jump out of the tub when he did that. 😩

[@SamHarrisonMusic]

When I was a kid I used to have to share my bathwater with my siblings, and Im only like 30 lmao, so some of these still continue!

[@Catmoore60]

Us too. My mom lined us up to see who was dirtiest…cleanest went in first.

[@margaretmcguire3241]

Girls bath with girls, boys with boys...

[@suzannac.6057]

Sam Harrison - Same here... at least it was just my brother & I that had to use used bathwater.

[@Msbuddy08sej]

Oh myyyy

[@SamHarrisonMusic]

@@margaretmcguire3241 I dont know if this was a rule for us, probably past a certain age. My sisters were much older than me, so i wouldnt know!

[@tzor]

The addition of leeches into "hygienic practices" is interesting. In one sense the practice had some potential benefits even if not properly understood at the time. In order to get a good meal a leech would inject blood thinners or anticoagulants into the patient. One example of a modern day commonly used blood thinner is aspirin. Today leeches are still used in some medicine, although now we know not to "share" them and to keep them sterile.

[@carolinebyrne4995]

Florance nightingale was the first person who made doctors wash their hands and they thought she was totally insane at the time

[@trudirosie4186]

I'm horrified that surgeons never used to wash their hands before operating.

[@BarbaraMerryGeng]

My dear, obstetricians would go from patient to patient w/o washing their hands - causing many women to die from childbirth - due to infection 💉

[@Charles52671]

Horrified me too 🤢 So thankful they scrub up now.

[@Charles52671]

@@BarbaraMerryGeng 😱

[@davidcostello6527]

I've heard sometimes during surgery a few surgeon's new to the job have thrown up into the patients opened torso 😷

[@audreyrichmond412]

The family bath sharing made me laugh. Being raised in the fifties and sixties Saturday night was bath night. The youngest three shared the first round of bath water until much of it was splashed out and the remainder chilled. More hot water was heated by electric kettle and added to the bath so the next two girls could go in. Then with another round of heated water, it was my turn. Oh dear! Thank God for bigger and modern water heaters of today, not to mention smaller families. Haha!

[@FloraThompsonWriter]

re bath sharing .... Us, too. But it never seemed to do us any harm.

[@edwhitson9873]

That was a better time, better people and morality

[@JJONNYREPP]

20 Gross Vintage Hygiene Trends 0632am 23.4.22 bath sharing is fine as long as it's with a partner of your own choosing. i though it said: 20 cross vintage hygiene trends. which had me curious... as you can see... not so...

[@alandelbridge5979]

I can relate to this

[@JJONNYREPP]

@@alandelbridge5979 20 Gross Vintage Hygiene Trends 0513am 19.5.22 i can't relate to being a filthy greasy smelly leech. or a dirty smelly sweaty stench merchant.... but yeah - i am sure you can relate to being a dirty smelly greasy filth merchant... if being a dirty filthy etc is something you can relate to. any mention of impure thoughts or hairy palms or lustful turk whimsy....? we never had those talks at school or at home as... well... i aint roman catholic. and it seems to be the stock in trade - such guilt. i am more worried about folk trynna enter my home of a night... i bet it's the aforementioned smelly greasy dirty filthy stench merchant....

[@dailyflash]

After you're done taking turns in the tub, going from oldest to youngest, don't throw out the baby with the bath water.

[@cliveturner4980]

this still happened until quite recently,maybe it still does !!!!!!

[@cassmaguire1112]

I really don't understand why it's oldest to youngest. As a child, you'd probably just have dusty dirt on you, but the older you get you get smelly and your skin gets greasy. Also, if you're fixing cars or doing "dirty work," why would they bathe a child...let alone a baby...in that? I've heard of that before, and it always made me wonder.

[@sten260]

@@cassmaguire1112 because nobody cared, the elder wanted to go first and the baby is not going to argue with him ,people are very selfish

[@veedejames721]

Why not bathe the younger one in a smaller tub. Just heat some water on those stoves. Then bathe the smaller children. Who actually put a baby in dirty water. That was nasty. By time the last person got in, the water had to be cold. I've seen some very gross films about sanitation throwing it out the window on the streets. That's why lot them got diseases. Poor sanitation. Make my stomach turn. I'm thankful I was born when I was.. Even today some people still don't bathe or use some kind of deorant. Use mouth wash, or brush their teeth. What's their excuse.? Vj.

[@patrickryan1515]

@@veedejames721 Homelessness?

[@naturallynari21]

I’m 25 and remember bath sharing when I was a little girl so that hasn’t changed. Although it wasn’t because of a bathtub issue but instead a water bill issue. Being poor, we stretched everything as far as we could. The dirtier children went last. Same for the toilet. We weren’t allowed to flush if we had urinated at my grandma’s house we could only flush if we pooped. So urine and toilet paper would literally stack until it was too much or generously filled and an odor began, then we flushed.

[@Grandizer8989]

In the late 1800s, Doctors in Austria would go straight from the morgue to the delivery room without washing their hands, and Drs who promoted bacteria prevention where ostracized

[@janeiwasduncan8463]

This was a great story. Dr."S" was concerned about the high death rate in Maternity. He investigated and found that the interns / medical students were going from the morgue to check on the new mothers but did sp without washing hands. He instituted hand washing. They were not happybot did wash hands. The he read in the Bible that gand washing in running water was even better and started that. One person would start pouring water into one basin while the doctor would wash his hands and another would hand him a clean towel. They hated and failed to notice the falling death rates with the newmothers. They called him a fool and criticized him to the point he left. Then the handwashing rules were tossed. No more handwashing?.guess what? The death rate in Maternity skyrocketed. The did not learn the lesson. Thank heaven for lessons in hand washing I learned from my nurse mother some 70 years ago!!💞💞

[@josephpaquette3781]

Yes; the sane Doctors who spoke out were tortured for doing so, As punishment, they were forced to bend over at the waist after which their heads were buried in the sand. Thus, they were ostrichized.

[@kathymartin7724]

Oh my.

[@kathymartin7724]

@@janeiwasduncan8463 thank goodness for that. Bless their hearts. Cleanliness saved so many lives. Once they started washing up. At least with water and a towel

[@starzee9706]

I'm the youngest of 7. I was dirtier coming out of the bath than getting in 🙄

[@elaine3355]

Aww I thought being the second youngest of 5 kids who shared a bath was bad enough...poor you🙈

[@dennisgruba4792]

I am 7 of 8. Fortunately we bathed in pairs and drained the tub and scrubbed it in between with Ajax.

[@theghood1]

🤣🤣

[@janicedafoe6793]

Lol

[@xsargantxshaftx7997]

@@dennisgruba4792 you're the lucky kind

[@elizabethnavarre7972]

Two quick things; one, life expectancy and two, common bathhouses. Infant mortality unfortunately was extremely high for most of history. That high rate pulls down the average age of death. If you look at life expectancy for those who survived childhood, you get a much better sense of the actual life expectancy of the culture and or the time period you're looking at, especially if you take social class into account. Obviously, a slave or peasant wouldn't have the same life expectancy as someone in the nobility. While I can't speak for every time period, most people underwent some sort of cleansing before they got into common bath water (like when public pools today ask you to shower first). The Romans would be rubbed down with olive oil and have the oil scraped off, taking with it dirt, sweat, dead skin, etc., before they actually got into any pools. It's impossible to know everything about everything, this comment is meant to be supportive and helpful. Love the vids, keep 'em coming. Thank you for you efforts to get interesting history out there!

[@amberhaynes4741]

Thank you for the info. That makes more sense...The more correct info you know 👍🤓😊

[@amberhaynes4741]

@Elizabeth Navarre I believe I watched something about the Romans who would scrape oil, dead skin, and sweat off their body. It would then be sold to the women as facial cream. 🤯

[@Angora573]

@@amberhaynes4741 They sold it from the best gladiators after a victory x

[@sarahholland2600]

If you studied social history at school, you'll know 50% of children died by the age of 5 in the 1800's. This was due to lack of knowledge around hygiene & preventable childhood illnesses we now vaccinate for: Polio, Diptheria, TB, Whooping Cough etc. The current vaccine conspiracy theorists conveniently forget this.

[@Arkimedus]

some of these things like Cauterization, leeches, and bathing together (especially among young siblings) arent really uncommon these days, both leeches and cauterization work and are used in modern medicine, albeit in a different way

[@maryqualls5086]

I was actually just thinking this. Lol!

[@bigal3055]

So is eating chalk. If you've ever taken antacids, the chances are that you've taken calcium carbonate, which, for all the difference it makes, is chalk.

[@rumham8979]

​@@bigal3055 ok Charlie Kelly...."well I'm drawing with the Tums and eating the chalk" 😂

[@salvation7362]

Here's a fun fact, 70-75% of the world's population doesn't use toilet paper... and yet they've somehow survived.

[@marlonventurina]

Yeah because we use water now and it's more hygienic than toilet paper

[@zeenaabdelqader8079]

Yea we use water i can’t even believe that some people only use toilet paper i mean you don’t even clean anything with that there is still waste particles in your behind 🤢🤮

[@jenniferlarson6426]

@@zeenaabdelqader8079 That's what baby wipes are for....the butt hole.

[@shelbeeray]

I think the Arabs always used water. I’ve read they thought “Europeans” were filthy because they didn’t bathe regularly.

[@trickyricky12147]

@@marlonventurina Correct, yet I still use toilet paper myself, lol.

[@casmrtblnd]

when you are wandering blindly around KZbin.. and come into some cool, as well as SO WEIRD, kinds of neighborhoods! Ya never know what the next click will bring ...

[@riosrivera101]

and a resident gives you coffee and invites you in and shit😂

[@susanjorden425]

Exactly how,I got here too

[@BRR949]

That thumbnail and title really caught my eye. 😂👀

[@johannagallo1004]

Amen thank goodness

[@debracline399]

I agree w/you, Jennifer, when you're looking around on youtube you run into some fun things, gross things & interesting things! You never know where youtube will take you!

[@edbecka233]

Arsenic is a separate element, not a component of lead, which is plenty poisonous enough on its own, thank you very much! Arsenic IS, however, mixed into lead, along with antimony, to harden the lead sufficiently to hold its shape when cast into clip-on wheelweights for balancing tires.

[@jennymcdonald4174]

Everyone bathing in the same water coined the term, dont throw the baby out with the bath water since usually by the time it came around for the children to bath, the water was brown.

[@markreisen7038]

EWWWW!! HOW GROSS is that!!

[@darlingjessi668]

Thanksfor sharing!

[@mynewemail72]

no wonder so many babies died before the age of 2!

[@jenniferlarson6426]

OH, that is disgusting.

[@stevesmom9868]

Yes! Where it came from!

[@chrisdavis3055]

When I was a kid our family shared the same bath water, for no other reason than it was the way my parents grew up. Contrary to what the video says, in our household the order was youngest to oldest.

[@JPMJPM]

I know it was oldest to youngest as far back as the 1700’s. By the time the youngest could get in the tub, the water was dirty. That’s where the expression, “Don’t throw out the baby with the bath water,” comes from.

[@babyhunt2000]

That is really repulsive. I probably would have tried to kill myself tbh

[@wandapowell4003]

@@JPMJPM I was the youngest.yuck

[@mynameisworld]

When I was a kid in the 1980s and 1990s, my mom made us share bath water to save money. My older sister always got to go first because my older sister was a very violent teenager who would start hitting people any time she didn't get her way. Next was my younger sister because of course the youngest and cutest gets priority. And then my mom would go next. I was last every single time. Imagine being a little girl from age 8 to 11, all those years having baths only on alternating days, being allowed to wash your hair only once a week, and every time it was after three people, two of them females of, well, let's call it fertile age (think about it), and the other a toddler who still pees in the bath. When I visited my dad on weekends, he'd tell me how awful it is the way my mom does that, and he'd tell me that people from school and around town were telling him how bad I stink because my mom was never letting me take a clean bath. I still remember how nasty the water was: cold, especially in winter, and scum always floating on top but my mom would yell at me and threaten me and force me to get in there ... 🤢 The weird thing is that when it comes to the house, my mom has always been a major clean freak. But when it came to her daughter, I got scum baths full of toddler pee and female body fluids.

[@hadesobsidian5231]

21, they actually _still_ use medical leeches after certain types of surgery. Stops clotting during healing which can cause complications.

[@neilruedlinger4851]

Especially when they reattach severed fingers, toes or limbs.

[@numerian4516]

@@neilruedlinger4851 Yes and don’t forget maggots. They’re used to clear away necrotic tissue. Have this strange concept in my head about creating “sterile” maggots to use in the medical field.

[@ionahleboff9219]

Bb

[@lhodgens]

I've seen them used in breast augmentation surgeries to prevent nipple death.

[@numerian4516]

@@lhodgens Yep and since they only consume dead flesh they’re perfect. Gives you the willy’s but perfect. There’s a YT video out there somewhere where they used it on a decubitus sore on a diabetic.

[@loub1105]

Leaches are still used to promote blood circulation with a reattached finger or toe. FYI

[@carolemccormick15]

Not in north down were i am from

[@cosmicmoxa]

Love this ,way cool, Cheers from our Space lounge in Finland and USA

[@thelovelyone1582]

Are you drunk?

[@danelicker317]

I don't use toilet paper. I bought a bidet during the Covid scare and TP shortage and it was the best investment I ever made. Not only has it eliminated my need for toilet paper, It gets me much cleaner than dry toilet ever could. Once you get used to it, you'll never use dry toilet paper again because you won't feel clean.

[@joyceboone8206]

That's so true, I uses a bidet,it is the cleanest I ever been , I love how after you do the number two it washes u up without toilet paper, everyone should have one

[@serenity2655]

It dries you after cleaning you?

[@danelicker317]

@@serenity2655 Some models come with a drying feature. Mine doesn't. What I do is I have a a set of washcloths that I only use for this purpose. After the first spray, I take a washcloth and get half of it wet and leave the other half dry. They I put some liquid soap on the wet side, lather up down there, sit back down and rinse, then pat dry with the other side and I'm clean as a whistle.

[@mr.toobigformypants8145]

How many of you remember your teachers passing Mercury around the classrooms and letting us kids play with the stuff, a teacher once told me that she never got it all back.

[@janestreeter8570]

Urine is good for dealing with the pain of fire ant bites when someone stumbled against or steps in a nest and gets swarmed. This is only for large numbers of bites and for emergency use. It also is good for chasing away the ants, but it's recommended to bath as fast as possible afterward and go to an ER as fast as possible afterward. This is why fire ants are sometimes also called 'piss ants'.

[@DWPersianExcursion]

I love this, learned something new

[@stevesmom9868]

No piss ants are small black 9nes not red fire ones.

[@pointysidedown]

Also, the only time urine isn't sterile is when you have a UTI. Being sick has nothing to do with it

[@kathymartin7724]

Really? Thank you for telling us.

[@kathymartin7724]

I read a print out of home remedies. It said to put a small amount of urine in your ear for an infection. I'm just saying.

[@geoben1810]

It's surprising that so many of the safe hygiene practices today are only as recent as within the last 100 to 150 years. But thankfully we do implement them.

[@GaelinW]

Not that surprising considering they are the result of better understanding medicine and science. It's not that different today. We "discover" something, apply it to life, but only later realize that the side effects/negatives outweigh the benefits. (asbestos, nicotine, weighloss drugs, anti-bacterial soap, corn syrup etc). The thing that partially saves/protects us are organizations like the FDA and it requirements.

[@undomiel152003]

@@GaelinW Except for one part. As we learn about medicine we realize that what we knew 10 years ago has shifted. We do not know that much in medicine either. This is why we haven't invented a cure for cancer, diabetes, etc. That and profit is impacting the medical industry. And the FDA is an entity that has corruption within it from the top pharmaceuticals. So it's not going to be too surprising, if we were to survive the next 200 years to find people in the future going, "What archaic things have these folks used for medicine?" For all we know they can just scan our dna code and figure out how to replicate our organs in 200 years, or provide precise medication geared to our genes.

[@wickedcabinboy]

@@undomiel152003 - What an absurd mixture of partial truths, misinformation and conspiracy theories.

[@JohnJones-hs5vc]

@@GaelinW j7h8

[@JohnJones-hs5vc]

@@GaelinW j7h8

[@bigbearlife6642]

Leeches and magots.and .cauterizing wounds are all still used. Today. So are many other things you stated!

[@dp-sr1fd]

That's correct. In ww1 casualties had to wait days to get treated and their wounds became infested with maggots. When cleaned off, the wounds were found to be much cleaner and the soldiers had less chance of getting gas gangrene. Prisoners of the Japanese also used maggots to clean out jungle sores and leg ulcers.

[@juliawilly9151]

Maggots are still medically to eat necrosis in wounds.

[@kennethlatham3133]

"Groom of the Stool", lol! Sounds like the missing Black Sabbath album.

[@nicoleknight9412]

😆😃😃

[@anthonywestjr1063]

@@nicoleknight9412 Cool name! 🥂👍🏾

[@darlingjessi668]

Lol

[@lorinapetranova2607]

Even a male to wipe women? Eeeeuuuuk.

[@davidpar2]

Lorina Petranova no, men did the men, women the women. Henry VIII had a man to do it, Elizabeth I a woman

[@2101case]

Using just toilet paper will some day be seen as primitive as using twigs and leaves. I'm old enough to remember when dentists worked on teeth bare-handed.

[@1diggitech]

Me too I used to hate it.

[@jeanninecathcart627]

That's how I bit the dentist finger when I was 6.

[@scarlettohara1238]

Me too

[@necromancerhamp]

How do the three seashells work?

[@Emiliapocalypse]

@@necromancerhamp lol you don’t know how the three seashells work?? 😂 🐚🐚🐚

[@nealeware9163]

I love how he explains how it works. It takes the hot air at the back and blows cold air out the front. Wow, I'm glad he explained that to me.

[@robroy6374]

sarcasm?

[@redbunny22]

i also love how he thinks lead has arsenic in it.

[@trudyharris2971]

We had the youngest or the cleanest got to bathe first. Dad was usually the last because he was in the field plowing. Mother kept boiling water until we all had a bath.

[@webleypug]

Trudy Harris - Your entire family was probably healthy as horses. Exposure to bacteria is a good thing. Today we have clean bodies but many conditions that were unknown decades ago.

[@doreenlloyd4885]

In our house it was girls before boys. Since there was only one girl, me, I always got the clean water.

[@altestic9436]

Baths in my house was kind of a family affair I have three older sisters.. needless to say I knew the female body more than any other 16-year-old. Plus I got shaving lessons.

[@melindaweasenforth1206]

I love the style of clothing they wore but I never could've exist and live the way that they had to do.....

[@lozzylols]

Totally agree, if it wasn't for health and hygenie, id love to experience times in the past!

[@paulashe7460]

Well ? If you’d been born then they’d been no choice. Consumer choice none.

[@gotcha9983]

People are pretty gross now.

[@krisleigh7243]

You wouldn’t know any other way so I believe you probably wouldn’t be bothered by it in that time

[@candlemaker9103]

they didn't know any better.

[@emilygoldberg4079]

I never knew bathrooms where a luxury. I think the youngest would bath first, due to them getting the bathwater less dirty. 🛀🚽🚿

[@MagikFingers420]

I agree, pops sweaty dirty coat of hard work will make the water nasty. Let the babies go first, next let the kids and women go, and then last dirty ole pops. I remember when we moved in to our 1sr place together, the water heater wasnt working for a few weeks until we could get someone to fix it, i would have to heat up 4 pots of water at the same time going back and forth keeping the water nice and hot for my pregnant wife, i actually enjoyed being a good husband, was nice pampering my beautiful wife.

[@jljnbj]

No doubt they were proudly "following the science".

[@frankiebutler2894]

Best comment !!!!

[@TJ-it1bm]

People lives past thirty all the time. What lowered the life expectancy was childhood disease, and dying in childbirth. Survive those two things, and a person more then likely lived to be about 70

[@FactsVerse]

Good point, T J!

[@kibblenbits]

I'm back over 300 years into my family history and the vast majority(on both sides)of them lived into their 70's & 80's, as far back as the late 1600's. There were only 2 that died because of child birth. My paternal grandmother died at age 29(the youngest to die in the direct line), in 1926, but they had operated on her, on a kitchen table, in a logging camp, during the winter, in northern Michigan.

[@franceskronenwett3539]

There were also other reasons why people in the past died earlier. One was poor nutrition and bad working and housing conditions. Poor people who lived in the slums had no access to clean water. Cholera was rife in slum areas in the 19th century.

[@firebearva]

As a child in the 50's we used the same bathwater, it was gross.

[@wesleyalan9179]

It's weird because, back then, it wasn't considered gross...but looking back, we see otherwise 😄

[@jenniceplanche9427]

Guess if it's between no bath or a bath that's been used, I'd pick the bath. Did so as a child and felt clean. It was a pain to carry and heat it on a wood stove. The adults had their water and the children their own, littlest last as they might go potty in the tub.

[@broncoscountry7667]

NASTY!!!!!!

[@wesleyalan9179]

@@broncoscountry7667 only if someone had an accident in it,lol!😄

[@tonycannyfarm8434]

the 50's you where very posh, we had to go to the park lake

[@sharonbartley808]

Bathing in the same water seems like the pools today.

[@jimdavenport4484]

Except pools have filters and chlorine

[@leht1617]

well, after swimming i usually take another bath in the showers knowing that pool water is not clean, and i take some medicine just to prevent from sickness

[@markreisen7038]

Yeah, and what about the broads sticking dung ga doo up their VJ' s to prevent disease? That really worked out well. Lmfao!!!

[@dianee7778]

Groom of the Stool? Nah, I’m just “Mom”.

[@hawaiiankansanfeindel7131]

Best comment ever! ( from a mom and grandma)

[@melaniesmith1313]

In the early 1960s, my older brothers and I shared the bath water. We were low income, and hot water cost money.

[@matthewbittenbender9191]

“Lead has high level of arsenic which made it poisonous.” No! Lead at high concentrations LEAD which was poisonous all on its own. Who does his research?

[@bikerbob2005]

Didn't billy the kid die of lead poisoning?

[@pointysidedown]

Your right. More research was needed, the writer did not do their homework

[@jordanapulla4322]

calm down not that big a deal lol

[@thecatwoman6496]

In the Victorian era girls would wash their faces in urine to clear up acne. Not sure if it worked, but many strong skin creams, like heel balms for cracked heels, contain urea, so it possibly was somewhat helpful.

[@kathymartin7724]

I had read about using a small amount of urine to put into one's ear to clear up an ear infection. I read that on a printout of home remedies.

[@lambgaming1347]

excuse me if im mistaken but that was before the victorian era... everything i see says that that was more of the 17th and 18th centuries

[@patriciasummers1859]

Bathing in the same water. We didn't have a bathroom in the house until the mid sixties. We would all use the same water but it started the youngest to the oldest. I remember our mother heating water on the cook stove. We were poor but we were NEVER dirty

[@forlornhope7121]

We did it in the drought times in 1970's and 1980's

[@kathymartin7724]

Having a wash tub in the yard. Also with water heated by the sun.

[@altestic9436]

Bath time in my house was a family affair kind of like dinner around the table. We had a large bathtub and everybody had their place. I have three older sisters so needless to say I knew more about the female body that most other 16 year olds plus I learned how to shave

[@dancahill9122]

I read a book, a few years ago from the library on old time medical practices. I think probably 1700s and earlier. IT WAS SO HORRIFIC I couldn't stand to read over one chapter !

[@markreisen7038]

Do you remember the name of the book? Might be worth checking out. Thanks.

[@kathymartin7724]

I saw a book with home remedies. From the later 1800s. Mentioning cocaine. Using it as a remedy. And the first version of coke a cola. Contained cocaine. In the later 1800s.

[@reez4910]

What’s the book name?

[@mboyer68]

Talk about gross trends, in Thailand, Indonesia, and other places in that area they have outhouses along rivers. Hundreds of them. And right downstream you'll see people bathing and doing laundry. So disgusting!!

[@marinaaburto930]

Wow. I enjoyed all of the video. Thank you very much. 😁

[@rickdiana704]

FYI : Physicians are not referred to as "Medics", Lead in and of itself does not contain arsenic, Urine IS sterile and therefore does NOT contain any bacteria unless you have an infection. I could go on. The level of misinformation in this video is just astounding. Before you set out to inform others, you need to educate yourself.

[@yondickle3264]

What about people who have a shit fetish

[@DAP-UAV]

@@yondickle3264 what about it?

[@DAP-UAV]

What about what? Not clear enough for you? Your question makes no sense. What else is new.

[@ginnied7346]

I couldn't even imagine having to use a stick or a shell to wipe myself down below, I reckon that could be quite painful if your not very careful Also sharing bathwater was something we had to do as a family when I was a child (70's/80's) my dad went first then my mum then myself and my younger brother, there must be a few People who are my age (46) who had to do the same, especially as at the time Maggie Thatcher was PM and all the coal mines were being closed so coal was more expensive, we needed coal to heat the house and the water heater and that's the main reason we had to share bathwater.

[@saragirma6577]

They could use leaves. That what African in villages use till this days

[@mynameisworld]

In the US we did. I'm a few years younger than you. When I was a kid in the 1980s and 1990s, my mom made us share bath water to save money. My older sister always got to go first because my older sister was a very violent teenager who would start hitting people any time she didn't get her way. Next was my younger sister because of course the youngest and cutest gets priority. And then my mom would go next. I was last every single time. Imagine being a little girl from age 8 to 11, all those years having baths only on alternating days, being allowed to wash your hair only once a week, and every time it was after three people, two of them females of, well, let's call it fertile age (think about it), and the other a toddler who still pees in the bath. When I visited my dad on weekends, he'd tell me how awful it is the way my mom does that, and he'd tell me that people from school and around town were telling him how bad I stink and saying my mom must not be taking good care of me. I still remember how nasty the water was: cold, especially in winter, and scum always floating on top, but my mom would yell at me and threaten me and force me to get in there ... 🤢 The weird thing is that when it comes to the house, my mom has always been a major clean freak. But when it came to her daughter, I got scum baths full of toddler pee and female body fluids.

[@SaltyMinorcan]

every American house should include a bidet when installing plumbing.

[@derekbervin3532]

RECANIZING THAT pool table and that ping pong table yall'self's gotten own&ownership&owned

[@johnmichaelrichards]

Leeches are still used in major plastic surgery units as an adjunct to blood flow in skin grafts and flaps. In burns treatment, maggots are routinely used as they remove the necrosed tissue and aid healing. As a junior practitioner I would collect leeches and maggots from the hospital pharmacy and take them to theatres and/or the Burns Unit. Cautery remains an essential treatment in many forms of minor and major surgery, ranging from battery-powered cautery pencils to mains-powered bipolar and diathermy cauterization, which may also be combined with argon and other lasers. The devices may be used to both dissect, and cauterize to achieve haemostasis..

[@OnTheBlankUK]

The 3 sea shells (demolition man)

[@wvmountaineer80]

Yes that would have come in handy

[@earldouglas4645]

How do use the seashell

[@kathymartin7724]

That's right. I thought the fifth element. Thank you. Both great movies.

[@sunlight.5175]

It’s crazy how life used to be back in days like that. The world has definitely developed in a better way. This is a very interesting video, so, thank you! Thank you for giving us knowledge about things like this.

[@loriepaix6391]

Leeches are actually still used in medicine today. For example, if you had the misfortune to sever your hand and doctors were able to reattach it, leeches are used on the fingers to help reestablish blood flow.

[@SeanCleverly]

Exactly. In fact, both leeches and maggots are useful and used in modern medicine.

[@charlieking3115]

I learned a lot from this Video very good thank you

[@neilruedlinger4851]

I wonder if in ancient Japan, if someone was a mean bully, did his/her victims take revenge by replacing the bully's chop sticks with used chugi?

[@RPlavo]

Like the way you write correct English.....his/her vs ubiquitous “their”

[@joemag6032]

I wonder which modern day cultures still think powdered "horn" (from a shot-dead rhino) is an aphrodisiac ? Somewhat off topic, I know, but I am just pointing out that ignorance is not limited to people from the past.

[@AsclepiusHoe]

Yes

[@kathymartin7724]

I just googled that. Poop stick. Oh my.

[@geoben1810]

I'm just really glad there's tp now.....👍🏻

[@geoben1810]

@Gob Goblin I've got plenty, need some?

[@geoben1810]

@Gob Goblin Good, cause this thing isn't over yet 🤤

[@kermitfoster6442]

No you know what

[@JDog-tn8we]

You’re not alone. That’s why there was a run on toilet paper when COVID lockdown began.

[@jimdavenport4484]

A lot of these things had nothing to do with hygiene

[@kathleenhorn2441]

Hell, people died early from doing work Dawn to midnight. People had a lot of children. 20 kids was not uncommon.Can you imagine getting up to a life of druggery everyday. Glad I wasn't born during this period. I bet a lot of people died of just being soooo tired (no will to live). Many of their children died due to contagious diseases. Doctors were still learning about diseases and a lot of women died giving birth. On and on.

[@liamroberts9047]

Hello Kathleen, How are you doing?

[@heru-deshet359]

One disgusting hygiene habit that kills and people still don't get is SMOKING.

[@Pastellieee]

Heru- deshet yes they get it. But like most drugs it is physically addictive.

[@chiefcuningcoyote4906]

Pharaoh: “why do i look so old and all my servants still look young?”

[@kaytriott]

1:26 my 70 year old mother told me about the bathing in the same bathwater as I guess that is how it was done even in her childhood back in the old country before she moved to Canada as a child. She is from a very poor part of a European country. She said the youngest bathed first and the father bathed last. It was water from the river and they would bring it inside and heat it and fill a tub with it. Then the father afterwards would dump out the water after all had bathed in it.

[@andybartholamew2104]

Chalk, ironically enough, is CH4. That is the compound found in stomach relief medicine such as tums, antacid, Pepto, etc.

[@laurabeane8862]

And the calcium is something the body needs more of if you are a woman of a certain age...

[@aerialmccoy]

I think you meant Na2CO3, sodium carbonate or bicarbonate soda not CH4 , methane

[@davesuiter]

CH4 is Methane aka natural gas. It is found or rather expelled from the bowels. I am sure you meant Sodium Bicarbonate.

[@lynnebattaglia-triggs1042]

Andy Bartholamew sorry bud. Wrong. Chalk is calcium carbonate (CaCO3) , NOT methane.

[@MrsNsf74]

And cheap calcium vits

[@troyf.9050]

I wonder what we're doing wrong today in which we will be talked about -like this, a hundred years from now. *Probably everything!

[@marklaplante8675]

I was #10 in a family of 14 children. Sharing a bath, or rather sharing the bath water was pretty much the norm as my parents could not afford the cost of heating individual baths for that many kids. And Saturday night was usually bath night, during the week it was just a wash-cloth at the sink. I didn't take my first shower until I was in high school and got on the football team. Now, it is not uncommon for me to hear my son in the shower for over 30 minutes and think that my Dad was probably spinning like a top in his grave at such a waste!

[@FactsVerse]

Thanks for sharing, Mark!

[@mypositive9642]

This is not real, right?

[@Freiya2011]

@@mypositive9642 of course it is.

[@marcychan168]

Thanks for the memories 👍🤭🌹

[@taratownsend6408]

@@mypositive9642 You must be an American under 45 years old, am I right?

[@fz1000red]

Cauterizing is still in use. I've had my sinuses cauterized a couple times to stop the annual nosebleeds each allergy season.

[@obscurelyvague]

it works?

[@naomianomaly8540]

@@obscurelyvague yeah. My husband had it done as well.

[@pointysidedown]

Me too

[@robertlwilson5930]

I had my cervix cauterized in 1965

[@pointysidedown]

@@robertlwilson5930 ouch!

[@PassionateGoth]

Narrator: Grooming of the stool. Me: Royal ass wiper. 🤣

[@pickledpigknuckles6945]

it was actually the most coveted job and had the highest chance to influence royal policy believe it or not

[@juliushernadi4421]

Doctors not washing hands had to be the worst. Thank you, Dr. Semelweiss.

[@johnconrad5487]

with all these terrible unclean habits, it is a wonder that we are here today

[@jenniferlarson6426]

Some of us have great immune systems. Those with weak immune systems usually didn't make it back then.

[@ParkerAllen2]

Wow, these barbarians actually had public baths? Now excuse me while I go relax in the hot tub.

[@frederickbangs8123]

Good one

[@doeeyes2]

🤣🤣🤣

[@lindaandmerle]

For many many years there was a product called "Carter's Little Liver Pills" Then later it was discovered it had nothing to do with the Liver, So, they changed the name to "Carter's Little Pills " selling then as a laxative. Which is what it was all along. Now, ain't that some $hit.. Lol

[@cliveturner4980]

there was a similar product which i cant remember the name of ,kidney pills or something like that for backache ,they where blue in color/so was your wee after taking them !!!!!!!

[@frankiebutler2894]

@@cliveturner4980 They were “Doan’s Pills”. I remember both. I just googled Doan’s, & it is still sold...in past it was sold in small round bottle...I wonder if they changed their ingredients? Both meds were tiny, round pills, & looked like BB’s!!!

[@michaelhart7569]

Urine was used as a disinfectant after it started decomposing (partly due to the bacteria). This is because the urea (carbamide), which is the end product of protein metabolism, is hydrolyzed to release ammonia, a very effective disinfectant and general-purpose cleaning agent. Also, lead is toxic on its own, even it it contains no arsenic. Yes, we used to use lead pipes for drinking water, but this was safe because metallic lead is generally fairly unreactive and also forms an insoluble layer on the surface. However, soluble lead salts are very poisonous.

[@jamesstone7325]

Groom of the stool. It's a crappy job, but someone has to do it. "Wait , you want me to do WHAT???!!!!!"

[@MrCatfarmer]

Hopefully they didn’t eat a lot of beans then.

[@The_Butler_Did_It]

4:08 "Lead contains high levels of arsenic and is therefore poisonous" Wrong! Lead contains high levels of _lead_ and is therefore poisonous. Lead doesn't contain arsenic unless arsenic has been added to it. This is usually done to increase its hardness, Arsenical lead wouldn't have been used in cosmetics

[@akashpm5350]

I was about to comment this..👍

[@lorenanders702]

Arsenical lead? Is he related to Arsenio Hall? 🤣

[@MichaelDFortner]

The most shocking is not mentioned, Roman public toilets, they wiped with a sponge on a stick they dipped in water, they all used the same sponge.

[@nathanbeardy2302]

Haha

[@sandyy.8244]

@Truth Finder I've heard about that practice. Long rows of benches with holes a few feet apart. Can you imagine a dozen or so ancient Romans in their togas, perched on the toilet and discussing politics :D

[@chriszito6183]

What a wonderful life it was for the crabs back then!!!

[@NickSmith-hv9zi]

Shocking how we made it this far. With killing each other throughout the history, being killed by animals, illnesses and now illnesses caused by poor hygiene, I wonder how we survived.

[@stevenperry1598]

It just makes you wonder what things we do today that really probably aren't really hygienic. What will they say looking back in 100 years at what we are doing?

[@williamsimmons152]

That we were wearing masks.

[@jenniferlarson6426]

One thing that will always be the same.....farts. No matter what century you're in.....there is nothing you can do about a fart, except leave the room.

[@koolkat5217]

@@jenniferlarson6426 funny🤗

[@eyesofthecervino3366]

Once bidets take over, they'll definitely roast us for setting for toilet paper. Other than that . . . I don't know. I can see things swinging back to a more natural, laid-back approach to beauty and hygiene, with people being horrified by all the harsh chemicals we were willing to bleach, dye, and inject ourselves (and the environment) with. But then again, maybe body modification will completely take off, and things like colored contacts and shapewear will seem primitive and archaic. Who knows?

[@naomianomaly8540]

Probably something like “why did they inject themselves with dead fetal tissue, metals and monkey pus?”

[@PuresG1ft]

Yeah... urine was used in the middle ages? My grandpa told me, he worked on roofs, that when they injured themselves they pissed on the wound. Now - I don't think that was a great idea for obvious reasons but it was practiced well beyond the middle ages.

[@Prophezora]

I have heard of people using urine for ear infections too.

[@permculture]

About the makeup thang. Lead does not contain high levels of arsenic. Arsenic has high levels of arsenic. Lead has high levels of lead.

[@JSkyGemini]

Correct! All it would have taken is 5 seconds to Google lead and arsenic and this channel wouldn't have uploaded bs. I stopped watching when he said that. And they still use leeches, too.

[@joemag6032]

It's not the first time this channel should have been named "Facts Averse"

[@MrCatfarmer]

Honey did it for me. Sticky never really bothered me much until I raised my twin sisters. The stuff they got into and sticky from head to toe. Now if I get sticky it just racks my nerves and have to jump in the shower. But getting greasy and covered in oil working on the tractors doesn’t bother me.

[@ursirius4878]

I still find it amazing that archeologist have found indoor bathrooms, toilets and all, from 2500yrs ago yet they did not become commonplace until just a few hundred yrs ago. Seems humans are slow learners.

[@tomrucco6490]

The groom of the stool😝

[@kennethlatham3133]

I know! It sounds like the missing Black Sabbath album.

[@lydian5762]

They're called personal support worker/ Nurses/ Personal care aids in today's term.

[@marusaprimozic879]

4

[@triciak1402]

😵

[@jessicaromero2586]

That was the case when I was around 7 or 8 years old. The only thing was my sister and I were the last ones to bath and we would change out the water. During the summer we loved it being from the south and humid hot summers we would take a cold bath not to make the hot water tank make noise so our parents didn't know we changed the bath water. Those were the good old dayd

[@heru-deshet359]

Next time I insult someone I'll tell them to go chew a chugi stick.

[@heru-deshet359]

@Tom Cummings I know

[@Antipodean33]

I'm 60 and remember baths with cousins when they stayed over for Christmas, lots of laughs and water everywhere

[@michaelciarla3836]

"It's a fork. I got ten forks right here baby!".. Sorry, I thought about that commercial.

[@joywalker4918]

But that you use leeches today too, and they're actually very, very effective.

[@moonprincess4283]

i agree as my grandmother also used that method

[@joywalker4918]

@@moonprincess4283 It grosses me out, but they're very good for you, and that's all that matters. I'm glad that your grandmother did really good with the treatment.

[@moonprincess4283]

@@joywalker4918 yup joy !.. they work but personaly i would never try it

[@theemeraldfox7779]

I bet some of these people had a hell of an immune system!

[@elainecooke156]

And why are allergies and sensitivities on an upward trajectory. Perhaps because we have been convinced that everything needs to be sterile to be healthy. Infants don't get to develop a strong/ healthy immune system because they are not exposed to 'dirt'. Whenever an advertiser claims that a product of kill 99.9 % of all known germs as yourself "Does this need to be sterile or is socially clean acceptable. If your toilet 'needs' to be sterile you must be using it in a way that it is not intended!!!

[@209rjones]

Leeches and maggots nowadays can have life. I know maggots can save a life for sure. They saved my aunts leg from being cut off

[@debishaw9355]

Dakotaaa Jones , yes, the maggots eat the dead skin of a wound and it is left clean to treat as needed.

[@tbones7874]

Yuck. Maggots killed my bunny

[@CaptainSpalding72]

Barrett shouldn't have neglected it, dumb ass.

[@junecooper]

Leeches are good to remove the blood from hematomas. If you got a punch in the eye and you can't open it because of the inflammation, a couple of leeches will do the trick.

[@njnear]

I don’t know where you got your chemistry degree, but lead is a base element, as is arsenic. Therefore, lead does not contain arsenic.

[@mobiusklein9140]

He probably meant lead compounds, however the message is the same.

[@williamblair9597]

No wonder Redd Fox said "You gotta wash your ass".

[@suzannac.6057]

My mother told me that her grandmother (& other girls of her time) would use chicken poop facials to whiten her skin. 😳

[@Violet-qf8dr]

There is a fancy spa in my area that uses nightingale poop in their facials. My friend worked there and said it was extremely funny to all the staff that these rich women were paying to have poo on their faces.

[@suzannac.6057]

@@Violet-qf8dr 😝

[@rla1000]

2:18 I believe leeches are still used, maybe for burn therapy?

[@pascalenimue1392]

And after surgery when there is a certain infection. Every hospital has them

[@kathypeebles7001]

rla1000 , but they are NOT your run of the mill leeches. These leeches are “medical grade” .

[@itskindofafunnystory...3237]

Surgeries too, to help blood flow to the area and help dying tissue regenerate

[@Skyj4lopy]

They also use medical grade maggots. Maggots don't touch live tissue so they are used to remove dead tissue to allow wounds to heal faster and cleaner.

[@randompersonbehindascreen7583]

@Tim Caldwell I believe that they use it to get rid of necrotic tissue. It removes the necrotic tissue while keeping the healthy tissue alive. The maggots prevent the infection from spreading, keeping the patient alive.

[@johnnyshd8250]

I had five siblings and we took baths in a galvanized tub two at a time in the same water. You were lucky if my mom put in more hot water, I bathed with my sister. I am 65 now.

[@mentalfloss100]

I come from 7 girls we shared the same water once a week . I’m 60 🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴

[@truthmatters-jt5up]

my two oldest brothers were bathed together, my younger brother and i were bathed together until a little older, then my sister and i were together. (i never had my own bed till i moved out at 18.) there was the ONE time my mom was so disgusted with us that she threw all my brothers and me in the tub together. the reason for her disgust -- we stood in glee, watching the street being tarred, and we all had tar splatters from head to toe. after tossing us all in together, she put a can of cleanser next to the tub and told us not to come out till all the tar was gone. damn that was funny.

[@johnnyshd8250]

@@truthmatters-jt5up And then I sit around people that are a generation older than me talk about the tough life and it is exactly the way I had it.

[@truthmatters-jt5up]

@@johnnyshd8250 i have a pretty good sob story of a younger life. but thank god we -- so far -- haven't dealt with anything like WW2 or the Great Depression. i am convinced i would know how to survive a pretty primitive environment, but i don't truly wish to find out. seems like it's coming, though.

[@georgiegirlization]

Us kids always shared our bathwater, youngest first then the older kids. This was in the 80's

[@amylee3531]

The term "don't throw the baby out with the bathwater." Come from the centuries of the baby always being last to be bathed in shared bath water. Families were huge(10 or more children depending) and dad always got first water. Then all the way down to youngest last. I know they didn't know about germs but one would think it best to wash baby early when the water isn't freezing at least

[@hellwithit]

So from chalk eating to crayon munching! Evolutionary miracle!

[@davidgibbs381]

None of those for me, I snacked on paste!