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"How often did our ancestors bathe? How often did they wash their clothes and change them? What did they understand cleanliness to be? Why have our hygienic habits changed so dramatically over time? In short, how have we come to be so clean? The Clean Body explores one of the mo…
"How often did our ancestors bathe? How often did they wash their clothes and change them? What did they understand cleanliness to be? Why have our hygienic habits changed so dramatically over time? In short, how have we come to be so clean? The Clean Body explores one of the mo…
"How often did our ancestors bathe? How often did they wash their clothes and change them? What did they understand cleanliness to be? Why have our hygienic habits changed so dramatically over time? In short, how have we come to be so clean? The Clean Body explores one of the mo…
How often did our ancestors bathe? How often did they wash their clothes and change them? What did they understand cleanliness to be? Why have our hygienic habits changed so dramatically over time? In short, how have we come to be so clean? This book explores one of the most fun…
Charts and tables in the book: How I Became a Hygienist - The Nature and Cause of Disease - Fasting - Colon Cleansing - Diet and Nutrition - Vitamins and Other Food Supplements - The Analysis of Disease States-Helping the Body Recover - Appendices.
Charts and tables in the book: How I Became a Hygienist - The Nature and Cause of Disease - Fasting - Colon Cleansing - Diet and Nutrition - Vitamins and Other Food Supplements - The Analysis of Disease States-Helping the Body Recover - Appendices.
Preface: the personal and the public in the American home -- Chronology -- Cleanliness: preceding the bathroom -- Sanitation: creating the bathroom -- Technology: furnishing the bathroom -- Infrastructure: connecting the bathroom -- Inequality: acquiring the bathroom -- Privacy:…
This book gives a complete history of the American bathroom and describes how the smallest yet most complex room in the American house is at the nexus of personal behavior and public investment.
This book gives a complete history of the American bathroom and describes how the smallest yet most complex room in the American house is at the nexus of personal behavior and public investment.
How dirty were our ancestors, really? Academic history has persuaded us that everyone in the early modern era thought bathing was unhealthy, so they didn't do it. Sweet and Clean? challenges this view, using a range of fascinating evidence to tell a different story about the was…
"Sweet and Clean? challenges the widely held beliefs on bathing and cleanliness in the past. For over thirty years, the work of the French historian, George Vigarello, has been hugely influential on early modern European social history, describing an aversion to water and bathin…
"How dirty were our ancestors, really? Academic history has persuaded us that everyone in the early modern era thought bathing was unhealthy, so they didn't do it. Sweet and Clean? challenges this view, using a range of fascinating evidence to tell a different story about the wa…
Tells what a sneeze is and how it can spread germs, and explains about covering a sneeze and washing one's hands to keep from spreading disease.
Photographs and easy-to-follow text help early readers learn how to prevent the spread of germs when sneezing.