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Given the prevalence of lice, fleas, and bedbugs and lack of modern hygiene and extermination methods, were medieval people constantly itchy? What methods could be used in the middle ages and/or Renaissance to kill the bugs or relieve bug bites?

by /u/AdloraOfSolitude in /r/AskHistorians

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