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You May Want To Think Twice About Bathing in Boston

  • October 29, 2015
  • Linda Veiking
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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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