Although the pediculi are almost unknown to the middle and upper classes of civilised communities, in consequence of the cleanliness of their persons, clothing, and houses, they abound amongst savage and half-civilised people.
The Pediculi are specially adapted to live amongst hair, their limbs being constructed for clinging to it.
These Pediculi were darker coloured, and appeared different from those proper to the natives of Chiloe in South America, of which he gave me specimens.
Murray has carefully examined the Pediculi collected in different countries from the different races of man (8.
In these latter cases it may be presumed that the Pediculi came from natives inhabiting different districts.
A very cleanly remedy for itch, and to destroy pediculi on the person.
Pediculi are sometimes conveyed from filthy to cleanly persons by means of dirty water-closets, chairs, sheets, brushes and combs, and in various other ways.
In the itch and several other cutaneous diseases, as a dressing to syphilitic ulcers, to destroy pediculi on the body, &c.
In its form the louse closely resembles the bed-bug, and the two groups of lice, the Pediculi and Mallophaga, should be considered as families of Hemiptera, though degraded and at the base of the hemipterous series.
Treatment consists in the application of some remedy destructive to the pediculi and their ova.
The region involved, itching, variable amount of irritation, and, above all, the presence of the pediculi and their ova.
In some instances, however, especially in boys, there may be many pediculi present, with but little cutaneous disturbance, the itching being the sole symptom.
The clothing and bed-coverings are to be thoroughly baked or boiled, the pediculi and their ova being in this manner destroyed; a thymol or carbolized boric-acid lotion may be used to relieve the cutaneous irritation.
The diagnosis is readily made, as the pediculi are usually to be found without difficulty, and even when they exist in small numbers and are not readily discovered, the presence of the ova will indicate the nature of the affection.
In pruritus of the genitocrural region the possibility of pediculi being the cause must be kept in mind; an examination of the parts for the parasite or for ova (attached to the hairs) would prevent error.
The order went on to say that where pediculi were present all clothes were to be confiscated, finishing with the brief and bland statement that thereupon new clothes were to be furnished throughout.
The mode in which Pediculi are generated being now so well ascertained, no credit can be given to these accounts.
They are distinguished from Pediculi not only by their form, but also often by their situation, since they frequently establish themselves under the cuticle.
The Pediculi and Mallophaga affecting Man and the lower Animals.
Pediculi and Mallophaga affecting Man and the Lower Animals.
Murray has carefully examined the Pediculi collected in different countries from the different races of man;[289] and he finds that they differ, not only in colour, but in the structure of their claws and limbs.
These Pediculi were darker coloured and appeared different from those proper to the natives of Chiloe in South America, of which he gave me specimens.
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