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Illustrations of history

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This magazine is for sharing artwork of historical events, places, personages, etc. Scale models and the like also welcome!

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[โ€“] raynethackery 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

How did they handle pest control? Obviously, they probably had cats to deal with rodents but what about fleas, ticks and lice?

[โ€“] PugJesus 2 points 6 hours ago

There were nit combs and the sort, but lice are extremely common in pre-modern populations of all sorts, high-class and low, clean and dirty alike.