The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History by Katherine Ashenburg

The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History

Katherine Ashenburg

368 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced
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For the first-century Roman, being clean meant a public two-hour soak in baths of various temperatures, a scraping of the body with a miniature rake, and a final application of oil. For the seventeenth-century aristocratic Frenchman, it meant chan...

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