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For the anti-bathing fad, you'll want to look to the mid-late Renaissance (lemmy.world)
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[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Perhaps, but definitely there was poor public sanitation simply because of lack of knowledge. Cholera was epidemic because people would throw their crap outside their homes or just about anywhere they like. Cholera is not common anymore thanks to 19th century science that studied why the disease persisted.