This week the Plumbing Museum took a field trip to New York to visit the Tenement House Museum and the Museum of the City of New York. Both museums featured exhibits relevant to our current research project for an upcoming display on the history of early bathhouses and sanitation in America. For a common citizen […]
View post →There were many strange (and a little crazy we might add) beliefs back in the mid 17th and early 18th century about one’s health. Especially when it came to medicine, remedies and sanitation. An old law in Boston even prevented one from bathing on a Sunday! Here are three laws that were passed back then […]
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