>>84875987okay, i just looked up and verified some quick examples: people were literally peeing in corners of the Sun King's palace in the 17th century and it was just accepted, Polish peasants had a "hairstyle" called the "Polish plait" that was simply the result of filth-matted hair that even their king had, and here's an article that cites some sources:
https://www.medievalists.net/2022/05/pollution-medieval-cities/obviously, yes, cities had laws about where to throw waste, but not everyone followed them and sometimes you just had so many people living in a city without modern transportation technology that things inevitably ended up awful anyways
