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Sally Ito's avatar

Do you know about Martin Luther and his bowel problems of which he apparently spoke of frequently? When l think about troubles with pooping, l often think of him.

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Thomas Wharton's avatar

I’ve heard of that, yes. I don’t think people were as shy back then about these things.

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Sally Ito's avatar

Yes, there’s apparently more references to bodily functions of all kinds in earlier literature from the medieval and renaissance, as you probably already know!

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