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A Spanish family picking lice or fleas from each other's heads. Coloured etching, 1812.

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.

The plague of lice. Coloured etching.

A type of louse (Polyplax spinulosa). Pen and ink drawing by A.J.E. Terzi, ca. 1919.

The typhus louse shaking hands with Death. Colour lithograph by O. Grin, 1919.

Peacock louse

Salmon sea louse, fish parasite

Salmon sea louse mouth, fish parasite

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

Mémoire comparatif sur l'histoire naturelle de l'insecte de la gale / Par F.-V. Raspail.

The female body louse (Pediculus humanus humanus). Pen and ink drawing by A.J.E. Terzi, ca. 1919.

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Salmon sea louse mouth, fish parasite

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

Salmon sea louse, fish parasite

Mémoire comparatif sur l'histoire naturelle de l'insecte de la gale / Par F.-V. Raspail.

The female body louse (Pediculus humanus humanus). Pen and ink drawing by A.J.E. Terzi, ca. 1919.