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Rua de Barreiros, 74,
4715-166 Nogueira,
Braga, Portugal

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Rua do Monte de S. Bento, lote 11 e 12,
4705-700 Fradelos,
Braga, Portugal

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Toilet Paper Rolls - 75m - 12 units
Toilet Paper Rolls - 75m - 12 units
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  • Model: MM-PHJ2F75

Jumbo Toilet Paper Rolls with 12 units of 100m.

 

Paper type: embossed paper

Roll length: 75m 

Width: 8.5cm

 

 

 

 

 

 


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How was it done before there was toilet paper?

In ancient Rome, those who used a public latrine could have used a tersorium to clean themselves. These ancient objects consisted of a stick with a sponge soaked in vinegar or salt water. And they are mentioned throughout Roman literature, for example, in an unforgettable excerpt, for the worst reasons, from a letter from the philosopher Seneca to the Roman official Lucilius. The letter talks about the suicide of a German gladiator who put a stick with a sponge – “which was dedicated to the vilest uses” – down his throat, to avoid going to the arena and dying at the claws of a wild animal.

De acordo com relatos da antiguidade, os romanos usavam um pau com uma esponja na ponta ...

PHOTOGRAPHY BY D. HERDEMERTEN, WIKIMEDIA COMMONS: According to ancient accounts, the Romans used a stick with a sponge on the end – called a 'tersorium' (modern replica pictured). However, archaeologists do not know exactly if this invention was used to clean the bathroom, or to clean its users.

Used in a community way, it is believed that the humble tersorium may have influenced the design of public bathrooms at the time. Archaeologists assume that the small openings in the floor of the public lavatories in the city of Ephesus were fountains where water continuously flowed - and would be useful for submerging the tersorium. However, preserved examples have not yet been found. “The question is whether they were used to clean the latrine, or whether it was for people to clean themselves,” says archaeologist Jennifer Bates, a postdoctoral fellow at the Penn Museum at the University of Pennsylvania.

Pedaços de vasos de cerâmica conhecidos por “pessoi” que eram usados pelos antigos gregos e romanos. ...

PHOTOGRAPH BY PHILIPPE CHARLIER, LUC VALÈRE CODJO BRUN, CLARISSE PRÊTRE, ISABELLE HUYNH-CHARLIER: Pieces of ceramic vases known as “pessoi” that were used by the ancient Greeks and Romans. Archaeologists have excavated these nearly 2,000-year-old “people” from Roman latrines in Sicily (left) and Crete (right).

Archaeologists have yet to come to a conclusion about the stick and the sponge, but they have discovered samples of people – a humble equivalent of toilet paper in ancient Greece and Rome. The people, small oval pebbles or pieces of pottery, were discovered in the ruins of ancient Roman and Greek latrines. And they were even immortalized in a 2,700-year-old glass that shows a crouching man using his stone. The people also deserve a mention in the Talmud.

There is another creative cleaning solution found in 1992 at an archaeological site on the ancient Silk Road in northwest China. Archaeologists discovered seven "hygienic sticks", in an area of ​​a latrine, of bamboo or wooden sticks wrapped in 2,000-year-old fabric. This fabric was covered with what appeared to be human excrement, and microscopic analysis of the stool confirmed that it contained a variety of parasites found in human intestines.

Uma das “varas higiénicas” encontradas na China, num sítio da Rota da Seda. A análise científica ...

PHOTOGRAPH BY PHOTOGRAPH FROM HUI-YUAN YEH, RUILIN MAO, HUI WANG, WUYUN QI, PIERS D. MITCHELL: One of the “hygienic sticks” found in China at a Silk Road site. Scientific analysis has revealed that these 2,000-year-old sticks still have evidence of a variety of parasites found in human intestines.

“The sticks were found in a specific context, and the parasites they contain can only have come from humans,” says Bates. “The sticks were definitely used in the latrine context.”

This finding is supported by historical texts that indicate that in ancient China and Japan sticks and spatulas were used (and a Buddhist koan also refers to a “cleaning stick”).

 

 

 

Origin of toilet paper

China was also ahead in terms of toilet paper. The earliest reference to toilet paper was found in materials written by Yen Chih-Thui, a 6th-century CE scholar, who had access to discarded manuscripts that had been used for personal purposes — but Yen said he didn't dare clean it "at the names of sages”. But the practice appears to have gone into effect even earlier. Researchers suggest that hemp paper, such as that found in the tomb of Emperor Wu Di from the 2nd century AD – a paper too rough for writing – was used as toilet paper.

In 1393, rice-based toilet paper was mass produced for the Chinese imperial family. But it wasn't until 1857 that the western world had its first mass-produced toilet paper. It was in that year that inventor Joseph Gayetty introduced J.C. Gayetty's Bathroom Medicine Paper, in an attempt to relieve Americans of rough newspapers, corn on the cob, and other makeshift items, including the Sears order book.

And there are also historical precedents for toilet paper hoardings. In 1973, Japanese women started buying huge amounts of toilet paper – with long lines at stores to buy rolls. It was the response given by middle-class Japanese to the fear that their aspirations for peace, stability and economic mobility would be affected by post-war inflation, which included environmental degradation and the oil crisis, explains Eiko Maruko Siniawer, historian at the Faculty Williams.

“For the first time since the late 1950s, it was not known whether the future would be better than the past,” says Siniawer.

The rampant rush to toilet paper in Japan has also fueled some fears in the United States, prompting a congressman from Wisconsin to issue a statement about a possible shortage. In 1973, when comedian Johnny Carson joked about the situation on The Tonight Show, it inadvertently sparked a short-lived panic over toilet paper.

“For me, as a historian, it's important not to make fun of people's decisions and actions, but to think about why they did what they did,” says Siniawer. The historian sees the 1973 toilet paper hoarding as a window into the lives of Japanese women at the time. Likewise, says Bates, studying past habits can help you understand a little bit of everything from intercultural differences to gender issues to money and health.

“From an anthropological point of view, we can look at the broader way in which toilet habits have affected human development from the past to the present, and then into the future,” says Bates.

“Often, people dismiss the mundane practice of using the bathroom. But this very common act offers important information about who we were, who we are and who we could become.”   in https://www.natgeo.pt/historia/2020/04/como-se-fazia-antes-de-existir-papel-higienico

 

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