Poop matters -- Bad plumbing? Bad news -- The origin of feces -- An iconic twist : poor plumbing in ancient Greece -- When in Rome, poo as the Romans do -- The age of shovelry : poop in the Middle Ages -- The reeking Renaissance -- I smell London, I smell France -- All dressed up but nowhere to go -- Eighteenth-century England : flushing away troubles -- The early 1800s : the great unwashed move to town -- Vileness in the Victorian era -- Cholera : the disease that changed the world -- The revolting river -- The age of plumbers -- Sludge, American style -- Modern sanitation -- Toilet talk.
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