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Title: Cleanliness


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Cleanliness
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Bathing
  • An upper-class woman in 1799 tells her journal,
    I am gathering the courage to try the family
    shower, although they have owned it for over a
    year.

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Washing
  • In Essex County, MA, not a single record of a
    washstand has been found before 1763.
  • By 1850, the basin, pitcher, and washstand are
    standard fixtures in a middle-class bedroom.

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Trash
  • From throwing household trash out the window,
    people began depositing it in hidden pits in the
    yard.

5
Civilization
  • Early nineteenth century medical wisdom The
    more a country is civilized, the more they
    consult this part of politenesscleanliness.

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American obsession
  • It were better to wash twenty times a day, than
    to allow a dirty spot to remain on any part of
    the skin 1840s
  • he who neglects his person and dress will be
    found lower in the scale of morals, other things
    being equal, than he who pays due regard to
    cleanliness 1830s

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  • Cleanliness is an emblem, if not a
    characteristic, of purity of thought and
    propriety of conduct 1844

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Could I restore thee what thou hast lost efface
this cursed stain
  • --Pleyel to Clara when he believes she is
    fallen.

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1776 Maryland Gazette
  • the foulness of the teeth by some people is
    little regarded but with the fair sex, with the
    polite and elegant part of the world, it is
    looked on as a certain marl of filthiness and
    sloth.

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  • The mouth with teeth was invented in the early
    1800s. Attention to the care of teeth grew
    dentistry became a profession.

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  • From 1800-1860
  • Hand-made toothbrushes to manufactured.

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Booker T. WashingtonThe Gospel of the Toothbrush
  • there are few single agencies of civilization
    that are more far-reaching.

14
  • All students at Tuskegee after the Civil War were
    required at least to own a toothbrush.
  • Its use brings about absolute cleanliness of the
    body and individualized discipline.

15
Servants
  • Slaves at auction the slave dealer grasps at
    the mans arms, as if to feel their muscular
    capacity. He then examined his hands and
    fingers and, last of all, told him to open his
    mouth and show his teeth, which he did in a
    submissive manner.

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Slave auction
  • Prospective buyers take turns feeling their
    arms, looking into their mouths, and
    investigating the quality of their hands and
    fingers.
  • The male slave is made to undress while buyers
    scrutinize his skin and hands and every tooth in
    his head is scrupulously looked at.

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  • Dr. Wolfe Lisa, Marge, these braces are
    invisible, painless, and periodically release a
    delightful burst of Calvin Klein's
    "Obsession--for Teeth."

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  • The teeth! --the teeth! --they were here, and
    there, and everywhere, and visibly and palpably
    before me long, narrow, and excessively white,
    with the pale lips writhing about them, as in the
    very moment of their first terrible development.

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  • The forehead was high, and very pale, and
    singularly placid and the once jetty hair fell
    partially over it, and overshadowed the hollow
    temples with innumerable ringlets now of a vivid
    yellow, and Jarring discordantly, in their
    fantastic character, with the reigning melancholy
    of the countenance. The eyes were lifeless, and
    lustreless, and seemingly pupil-less, and I
    shrank involuntarily from their glassy stare to
    the contemplation of the thin and shrunken lips.
    They parted and in a smile of peculiar meaning,
    the teeth of the changed Berenice disclosed
    themselves slowly to my view.

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  • Few deductions, if any, were made and those few
    pertinaciously returning in upon the original
    object as a centre. The meditations were never
    pleasurable and, at the termination of the
    reverie, the first cause, so far from being out
    of sight, had attained that supernaturally
    exaggerated interest which was the prevailing
    feature of the disease.
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