Flowers for Perfume
Today, flowers are used by many people and companies as a source of making flowers and cleaning products. It’s their scent that helps as a lot of them have pleasant smells and are used for dispelling other foul scents. So, for people in the olden age, they used flowers to conceal the high body odor they had. Bear in mind, people didn’t shower or clean themselves so often, so this was needed.
Well, this may be one of the sanest inventions of the ancient world as it had purpose and stability. The scented flowers were used to form “nosegays,” which is also known as a bouquet. There are lots of people who still use perfume and deodorant to hide the heavy body odor because they still don’t want to shower. But, olden day folks didn’t have much choice.
Enema Practices
At one point in our lives, we must have heard the phrase: “blow smoke up your ass” and was seen as an insult to many who got the slur hurled at them. History has records that showed people having tobacco smoke enemas, which they would blow up the rectum. It was mainly practiced by Native Americans and later introduced to Europeans.
The practice was used to cure several conditions and was also used as a remedy for respiratory problems. Tobacco is a medicine used by many Europeans after being discovered in the New World and considered it great fro drowsiness and cold. But as time passed, it was discovered that nicotine (a product in the tobacco) was dangerous to the body. Thank goodness too, the tobacco enemas were also eliminated from history.