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Concept

Phthiraptera

Images

  • A Spanish family picking lice or fleas from each other's heads. Coloured etching, 1812.
  • Ox louse clinging to a hair - coloured SEM
  • Scenes from the life of Moses before the Exodus. Etching, 1799.
  • After the defeat of the White Army, a new white peril threatens Russia in the form of the typhus louse, against which the Red soldiers fight by washing themselves and their clothes vigorously. Colour lithograph, ca. 1921.
  • Thirteen types of crab and two other marine crustaceans. Engraving by I. Taylor.

Catalogue

    • Pictures
    • Online

    Typhus prevention equipment: the Lelean sack disinfestor, used to disinfest clothing and kill lice carrying typhus. Photograph, 1900/1920 (?).

    | Date: 1900-1920 | Reference: 568279i
    • Digital Images
    • Online

    Salmon sea louse mouth, fish parasite

    Kevin Mackenzie, University of Aberdeen
    • Books

    What should you know about head lice? : there's a simple answer with Full Marks lotion / Consumer Products Division, Napp Laboratories Ltd.

    Napp Laboratories. Consumer Products Division. | Date: 1993
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0011709: Woman picking lice or fleas out of a man's hair

    | Date: 1951 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/104/17
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Digital Images
    • Online

    Salmon sea louse, fish parasite

    Kevin Mackenzie, University of Aberdeen
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