An American text-book of genito-urinary diseases, syphilis and diseases of the skin . Fig. 291.—Male pediculus capitis(after Kuehenmeister). Fig. 292.—Nits of pediculus capitis(after Kaposi). quently superadded in the scrofulous. When it occurs in children who areweakly and inclined to eczema an eczematous condition of the head is rapidlyproduced. In case this takes place in those who are negligent of the rules of per-sonal cleanliness and hygiene, the secretions from the eczema mat and gluethe hair together, resulting in a foul, vile-smelling, filthy mass alive withlice, the so-called plica p
An American text-book of genito-urinary diseases, syphilis and diseases of the skin . Fig. 291.—Male pediculus capitis(after Kuehenmeister). Fig. 292.—Nits of pediculus capitis(after Kaposi). quently superadded in the scrofulous. When it occurs in children who areweakly and inclined to eczema an eczematous condition of the head is rapidlyproduced. In case this takes place in those who are negligent of the rules of per-sonal cleanliness and hygiene, the secretions from the eczema mat and gluethe hair together, resulting in a foul, vile-smelling, filthy mass alive withlice, the so-called plica polonica. This condition is rarely seen in the UnitedStates. Diagnosis.—The diagnosis offers very little difficulty. The detectionof the parasite or its shining nits in the hair of the head settles the epithelial scale will not give rise to error when it is borne in mind thatit is centrally transfixed by the hair, and is easily removable, while a nit issituated unilaterally, and is more adherent to the hair. It is a good rule tofollow in every case of severe itchi
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