With it you could comb the lice out of your hair. You had to be very careful so that you got all the lice, and you often had to use the comb several times to get rid of the lice. Even today, you can use a lice comb to get rid of lice, and you can buy it at the pharmacy.
Lice were more common before, and people often felt ashamed if they had lice. Then people said that you didn’t wash yourself and it was dirty at home. Today we know that lice thrive in clean hair as well as dirty hair.
An important reason why lice were more common in the past was that people lived in cramped quarters so that lice jumped more easily from person to person. Besides, you didn’t have shampoos and other things that help like you do now.
Often people still get lice, but fortunately it is now quite easy to get rid of.
