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Ancient Romans wiped their butts using a sponge on a stick, which doesn’t sound awful, apart from the fact that the stick was communal.
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In the late 1700s, the chainsaw was invented as a more efficient way to to cut the pelvic bone during childbirth – a common practice at the time.
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Europeans in the 16th and 17th would ingest remedies that contained human blood, fat, and bones, often sourced from Egyptian tombs and Irish burial grounds.
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And up until the sixth century, in the Roman Republic, drinking gladiator blood was believed to be a cure for epilepsy.
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Up until the early 1900s, chloroform and smoking were both recommended as treatments for asthma.
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And finally, in early 20th century America, douching with Lysol – the cleaning product that contains a bunch of toxic chemicals – was recommended as a method of birth control.
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Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/hanifahrahman/history-body-facts-1