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Thursday January 7, 2016

Friends, Romans, Countrymen, Lend Us Your Toilets (Without Parasites)

Romans would have gathered in this heated room during a visit to the bathhouse in Herculaneum, in what is now Campania, Italy. Peter Barritt/Robert Harding/Corbis hide caption

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Friends, Romans, Countrymen, Lend Us Your Toilets (Without Parasites)

January 7, 2016 • The Romans are famous for their baths, aqueducts and toilets. But the sanitary innovations might not have done as much to improve health as was once believed.