. Animal parasites and messmates. Parasites. 132 ANIMAL PARASITES AND MESSMATES. Corsiean by birth, had happened to see these itch-insects sought for in his own country, and was the first to prove, in 1834, the real cause of the disease. A resident student had given, in a thesis which he sustained at Paris before the faculty of medicine, a drawing of a cheese-mite instead of the itch-insect, and this error had caused it to be supposed that the species peculiar to. Fig. 23.—Sarcoptes scabiei, male ; the dorsal surface. this disease did not exist; We give in Figures 21, 22, 23, representations o
. Animal parasites and messmates. Parasites. 132 ANIMAL PARASITES AND MESSMATES. Corsiean by birth, had happened to see these itch-insects sought for in his own country, and was the first to prove, in 1834, the real cause of the disease. A resident student had given, in a thesis which he sustained at Paris before the faculty of medicine, a drawing of a cheese-mite instead of the itch-insect, and this error had caused it to be supposed that the species peculiar to. Fig. 23.—Sarcoptes scabiei, male ; the dorsal surface. this disease did not exist; We give in Figures 21, 22, 23, representations of the male and female insect, greatly magnified.* Of course, all the treatment necessary for the cure consists in getting rid of the animalcules and their eggs, and in cleansing the skin and the clothes of the patient. Petroleum oil has been judiciously pre- scribed in order to destroy the mite, but the remedy which seems the most efficacious is Balsam of- Peru. * Hardy, in his herons sur les malaMes de la pea/u, (Paris 1863), devotes a special chapter to parasitical diseases, and gives the complete history o£ the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Beneden, M. van (Pierre Joseph), 1809-1894. New York, D. Appleton and Co.
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