note in passing-- hygiene/privies
Jul. 25th, 2007 01:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
John G. Bourke, Scatalogic Rites of all Nations (Washington, DC: W.H. Lowdermilk & Co, 1891) includes, among other things, a interesting survey of "Ordure and Urine in Medicine" concentrating largely on the pre-modern age which also covers human sweat, milk, ear-wax, etc. The chapter on Latrines is not very helpful for our period.