 When the civilization of Egypt, Greece, and Rome faded, the world passed through dark ages of mental and physical barbarism. For a thousand years there was not a man or woman in Europe that ever took a bath, if the historian of those times, Michelet,...  Report - Page 293by New Hampshire. State Board of Health, New Hampshire. State Department of Health - 1883Full view - About this book
 | 1898 - 664 pages
...changes of the sixteenth century. There an? still, however, some who seem to think the eminent person who said that "for a thousand years there was not a man or woman in Europe that ever took a bath " was bearing witness to an historical fact somewhere about as unassailable as the... | |
 | 1875 - 1012 pages
...inquire into facts and principles. As to their dirtiness, Dr. Playfair makes a broad assertion : " For a thousand years there was not a man or woman in Europe that ever took a bath." Is this true 1 If it is true, was it because the Church forbade or discouraged baths... | |
 | Joseph Chrisman Hutchison - 1875 - 332 pages
...Egypt, Greece, and Rome faded, the world passed through dark ages of mental and physical barbarism. For a thousand years there was not a man or woman in Europe that ever took a bath, if the historian of those times, Michelet, is to be believed. No wonder that there... | |
 | 1875 - 360 pages
...Greeks, and the Romans faded away, the world passed through dark ages of mental and physical barbarism. For a thousand years there was not a man or woman in Europe that ever took a bath, (!) Hence the terrible plagues and epidemics of the Middle Ages. It required some... | |
 | National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) - 1875 - 1029 pages
...Greeks, and the llomans faded, the world passed through dark ages of mental and physical barbarism. For a thousand years there was not a man or woman in Europe that ever took a bath. How different that time was from the times which preceded it, when daily baths were... | |
 | J. C. Hutchinson - 1875 - 324 pages
...Egypt, Greece, and Rome faded, the world passed through dark ages of mental and physical barbarism. For a thousand years there was not a man or woman in Europe that ever took a bath, if the historian of those times, Michelet, is to be believed. No wonder that there... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1891 - 540 pages
...to prove ponderously that Dr. Lyon Playfair was not strictly accurate in asserting, after Michelet, that ' for a thousand years there was not a man or woman in Europe that ever took a bath.' Cleanliness did indeed play rather a poor second to godliness in many places in... | |
 | Richard Metcalfe - 1877 - 376 pages
...mean authority on the subject — boldly asserted in his famous Glasgow speech (October 5th, 1874), that, " For a thousand years there was not a man or woman in Europe that ever took a bath. No wonder that there came the wondrous epidemics of the middle ages, which cut off... | |
 | Baldwin Latham - 1878 - 670 pages
...Eonians faded, the world neglect in Dark passed through dark ages of mental and physical bar- K barism. For a thousand years there was not a man or woman in Europe that ever took a bath. How different that time was from the times which preceded it when daily baths were... | |
 | 1880 - 332 pages
...Greeks, and the Romans faded, the world passed through dark ages of mental and physical barbarism. For a thousand years there was not a man or woman in Europe that ever took a bath." " No wonder that there came the wondrous epidemics of the middle ages, which cut... | |
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