Starting the 1800s, doctors have been advocating the benefits of hand washing. People were so used to the idea that plagues, disease, and death have been brought on by bad blood, animals, and black magic. Dying even before your adulthood sets was a fact of life and expectations were not set too high especially for members of the lower class and dissenters. Pest control, proper human waste disposal, hygiene, and sanitation were almost unheard of. Even back then, people of the middle and upper class and the gentry and royals would only bathe once a week or not at all.source https://broadreview.com/best-hand-wash/
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