From Arthur Robinson
One of the first flushing lavatories was described in 1596 by Sir John
Harington in “A new discourse of a stale subject called the metamorphosis of
Ajax”.
A hilarious and scholarly account of the whole subject is Cleanliness and
Godliness, or, The Further Metamorphosis by Reginald
Reynolds (Allen & Unwin, 1943).
Prestatyn, North Wales
