The minor horrors of war / by A.E. Shipley.

  • Arthur Shipley
Date:
1915
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Credit: The minor horrors of war / by A.E. Shipley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    B only two have any relation to the human body. I do not propose, in the present chapter, to consider one of these two genera—Phthirius —^which frequents the hairs about the pubic region of man and is conveyed from one human being t o another b y personal contact. We will confine our attention to the second genus, Pediculus, which contains two species parasitic upon man — {Pediculus capi- tis) the h a i r- louse and {Pedi- culus vestimenti) the body-louse. Both of these are extremely difficult to rear in captivity, though in their natural state they abound and multiply to an amazing degree. Wherever human beings are gathered to- gether in large numbers, with infrequent opportunities of changing their clothes, P. vestimenti is sure to spread. It does not Fia. 1.—Pediculus vestimenti (Nitzsch). A, Magnified 20 times ; b, natural size.
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