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toilets
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victorians
cesspit
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If you were to travel back in time, you would discover that toilet
paper didn't exist in the Medieval age. In lieu of this modern
convenience, handfuls of straw or hay were used.
While the better off used cotton and linen rags. Ordinary people
used a plant known as common mullein, whose leaves though hardly
absorbent were pleasantly soft.
Other Names: Adam's Flannel, Beggar's Blanket, Candlewick Plant,
Common Mullein, Flannel Mullein, Flannel Plant, Hag's Taper,
Jupiter's Staff, Molene, Mullein, Velvet Dock, Velvet Plant, Woolly
Mullin.
Soap came in two kinds black and white, coral and cuttlebones were
used for teeth, shampoo was made from fern ash, vine stalks and egg
white.
Peasants' Revolt.
Believing that John of Gaunt was responsible for the shortage of
hemp and linen essential to the manufacture of comfortable toilet
paper, the rioters abandoned their leader Wat Tyler in 1381 and
demolished London's Savoy Palace. !
Toilets Romans
Medieval Tudor
Georgian
Victorians
Cesspit
London's Drains
Thomas Crapper
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