The first mention of itch in history? When Egyptologists scratch their heads

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
• ² Department of Dermatology and Center for Chronic Pruritus, University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany.
• ³ Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, New York, USA.
• ⁴ Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Projekt "Strukturen und Transformationen des Wortschatzes der Ägyptischen Sprache", c/o Ägyptologisches Institut der Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.