Case 205. "Man who has caught lice" in Yamai-no-Soshi" (borrowed from the homepage of Kyoto National Museum)

       
  Yamai-no-Soshi (Yamai = disease, Soshi = handscroll) is the world oldest handscroll (atlas) of diseases and deformities published in the 12th century in Japan.  
       

 

  The transmission and treatment of pubic lice have been unchanged for more than 800 years. It is transmitted by sex, and the treatment of choice should be hair shaving!