[Ansteorra] Shenanigans II: Electric Boogaloo

[Susan McMahill]

BTW, as we were taught in nursing school, unless someone is suffering from a urinary tract infection, urine is actually sterile until it leaves the body and is exposed to bacteria from the exterior of the body, etc. It isn't the 'unhygenic' quality of urine that makes it unpleasant to work with, it is the fact that it breaks down rather rapidly into ammonia which is a pretty nasty smelling substance. It is the ammonia that was what made it a valuable mordant for the dyeing industry. 

 

Lyneya

 


Well-behaved women Seldom make history - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich


 
> From: lygabrielerdb at hotmail.com
> To: ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org
> Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:39:07 -0600
> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Shenanigans II: Electric Boogaloo
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> I must have missed some part of this thread. I didn't see any outraged ranting. 
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> Personally I would have been surprised if that had been THE reason for marking down. But as has already been explained, it was just one example of how it would have been done in period. 
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> I have never heard of a Laurel insisting that something be done in a way that is not only gross, but unhygienic & possibly one of the reasons why the the life spans were so short.
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> Gabriele