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Huey, Lois Miner.
Ick! Yuck! Eew :
our gross American history /
Lois Miner Huey.
Minneapolis :
Millbrook Press,
[2014]
Minneapolis :
Millbrook Press,
[2014]
©2014.
48 pages :
color illustrations ;
26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (page 44) and index.
Introduction : the yucky past -- The smells -- The bugs -- The medicines -- The clothes and hair -- Conclusions -- Glossary -- Selected bibliography -- Further reading -- Places to visit -- Index.
Presents facts about the lack of sanitation, personal hygiene, dental care, antibiotics, and insecticides in eighteenth-century America and the unfortunate results such a lack had on everyday living conditions.
20140104.
United States
History
Miscellanea
Juvenile literature.