lack sewers, the chamber pot for a very long tradition and practically no one came past him: in hospitals, hostels and private space, he served at a time without a toilet flush the Notdurf, as the name suggests, particularly at night.
emptied it was in medieval and early modern times simply through the window, in the 18th Century, it was then in some cities morgends brought to the door and the town emptied to prevent epidemics.
Over time, the chamber pot and a kind of political statement with hated personalities or patriotic slogans. So were such white chamber pots with an image of Napoleon on the ground in the time of the Napoleonic wars very popular and you did his opinion known every time again when we went to the bathroom.
from 18 Century arrived, so-called body chairs in fashion, which were nothing less than a more comfortable chamber pot variant (hence the term "stool"). It is even known that even Le Roi du Soleil Louis XVI of France, who did so out of all his activities, a state affair, and talked on the commode with high government officials and confidants. (Small note in the margin: in Versailles, it was not a single fixed toilet, though always, the devil was going on there)
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