Doctor Curmudgeon® I Am Thankful for Indoor Plumbing

By Diane Batshaw Eisman, M.D. FAAP Doctor Eisman is in Family Practice in Aventura, Florida with her partner, Dr. Eugene Eisman, an internist/cardiologist

Those wonderful days of yesteryear were not always so wonderful.

Once upon a time people did not have indoor toilets.

They trekked outside of their homes to an outhouse.

An outhouse was a small wooden structure set away from the dwelling with doors and uncomfortable seats. A pit was dug under the hole in the seat for wastes to collect.