18 Strange and Disgusting facts about Victorian Britain
By Pictolic https://pictolic.com/article/18-strange-and-disgusting-facts-about-victorian-britain.htmlPrim Britons during the reign of Queen Victoria seem to be a model of decorum and good morals. It's hard to imagine, but British women of those years wore pantaloons with a hole in the most interesting place, and respectable doctors relieved them of hysteria with a thorough massage ... of the clitoris. Rotten food and canned food with arsenic, dead children in the photo, the queen is a glutton, as well as other strange and nasty facts about the Victorian era.
Doctors of that era treated hysteria in women with masturbation
Women's underwear was open in the crotch area
Menstruation at that time was just a bloody nightmare
In this era, women were very hairy... everywhere
The Thames was so full of feces, garbage and dead animals that you could walk on it
The streets of cities in those days were no less disgusting
In the 60s of the XIX century, crinolines became so wide that women got stuck in the door
Often the food was spoiled or just of poor quality
Queen Victoria made the cooks cook a vat of curry every day, although she couldn't stand it herself
But Victoria ate other food at the speed of light
Toothpaste was made from coal and honey
Women made face masks from raw meat
In the 1870s, the star of the London and Liverpool panopticons was a "boy with a dog's face" from Russia
Boys in childhood wore dresses — until it was time to go to school
Almost 50% of children died before they reached the age of five
Grieving families were photographed with the corpses of their children
In rich houses, for some reason, they liked to eat fried veal ears
Charles Darwin was very fond of dishes from exotic animals
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