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Red Prowfish (Pataecus fronto), family Pataecidae, order Scorpaeniformes, found in the coastal waters of western and southern Australia

The Victorian Era was filthy by modern standards. The well-known maxim 'Cleanliness is next to Godliness' was coined by the preacher John Wesley in 1778, but London had certainly not taken his words to heart. The upper classes generally bathed only a few times a month (and the lower classes even less frequently) and usually not at home. Instead, they headed to the Turkish baths that had become popular from the 1850s, particularly among upper-class men. By the end of Victoria's reign over 600 Turkish baths had been built across the country. For women, costly bathhouses offered arsenic and lime washes to chemically burn off body hair if they did not want to shave, as the vogue for sleeveless evening gowns meant that upper-class women had to depilate.