Constantin BĂRBULESCU - Fleas, Lice and Bugs – Notes on Rural Hygiene in the Second Half of the 20th Century

The paper tries to recompose a few aspects of rural hygiene on the basis of information gathered from oral inquiry. It is about the parasites which once infested the body and household of peasants – lice, fleas, bugs –, to which we added a parasitic illness by excellence – the scab. Finally, we were also interested in data upon body and clothing hygiene. All this was done with the declared aim of comparing the peasant discourse with the medical one on the same topic.

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