Neat! Say, when did surgeons start washing their hands? Look it up ;)
this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2025
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Perhaps, but definitely there was poor public sanitation simply because of lack of knowledge. Cholera was epidemic because people would throw their crap outside their homes or just about anywhere they like. Cholera is not common anymore thanks to 19th century science that studied why the disease persisted.
We're supposed to take bathing info from a pug? Don't you guys go for the "licking things clean" method of washing?
Lemmy gets it; on BlueSky there were far too many people being all "but they were dirty tho" when they're really just mixing it up with Late Renaissance / Early Industrial. London was practically unlivable!