She boasted that she had only two baths in her life -
at birth and prior to her wedding. But not all royals were so
unhygienic. The flushing toilet was the preserve of Queen Elizabeth I.
It was invented for her in 1596 by Sir John Harrington, her godson.
New York entrepreneur Joseph C. Gayetty manufactured in 1857 the first
pre-moistened bathroom tissues, each embossed with his name. Aptly
named British plumber Thomas Crapper redesigned the modern toilet and
received a series of related patents between 1861-1904. The Kleenex
tissue was not introduced until 1920 and the pop-up box only nine
years later.
Prior to the invention of the toilet paper in 1890 by the Scott Paper
Company, people used an assortment of objects to wipe clean - most
often leaves and corncobs. French royals employed lace, hardy Vikings
- wool, Romans resorted to the sponge. The Chinese, ahead of the times
in 1391, were the first to use paper sheets.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/WolfFiles/wolffiles156.html
Hysteria
The word means "of the womb" in Greek. Hysteria was thought to be
confined to women who were suffering from some problems with the womb.
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