Lavativa; costumbre popular; salud; higiene; costumbre; Museo del Prado; siglo XIX - History Lab https://historylab.es Wed, 18 May 2022 15:39:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Lavativa; costumbre popular; salud; higiene; costumbre; Museo del Prado; siglo XIX - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 The lazy one https://historylab.es/the-lazy-one/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-lazy-one Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:31:41 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/la-lavativa/ A Cultural History of Hygiene in the Modern Age

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]]> The lavativa was a method that the Diccionario de Autoridades records as an aid to unload the belly and cleanse the inside of great discomfort. However, in the 17th century it was a hygienic-health mechanism that became a remedy for everything. In spite of the delicate posture, it was taken by several people at the same time and they even had lively conversations. There was a great variety of such practices: purgatives, astringents…

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