. Dr. Evans' How to keep well; . nd to his poisoning effect from the brown-tailed moth results from chemical substances contained in the shaft of the long barbed hairs carried on the abdomen and back. These hairs can be carried by the wind and can produce the rash in people who have not been in con-tact with the caterpillar. The ordinary effect is rash similar to hives, the brown tail rash. The usual site is the skin of exposed portions of the body— the neck, face, and hands. The rash may be similar in appearance to hives; or it may be like eczema; or there may be oozing bumps; or t
. Dr. Evans' How to keep well; . nd to his poisoning effect from the brown-tailed moth results from chemical substances contained in the shaft of the long barbed hairs carried on the abdomen and back. These hairs can be carried by the wind and can produce the rash in people who have not been in con-tact with the caterpillar. The ordinary effect is rash similar to hives, the brown tail rash. The usual site is the skin of exposed portions of the body— the neck, face, and hands. The rash may be similar in appearance to hives; or it may be like eczema; or there may be oozing bumps; or there may be small boils or pustules. The hairs may get into the nose and bron-chial tubes causing colds and coughs that may bemistaken for consumption. They may get intothe eyes causing small lumps like proud these lumps have been diagnosed asgranular lids and sometimes as tuberculosis. Fig. 383.—Case-making Clothes Moth (en-larged) (Herrick Sanitary Science Series No. 3,Cornell Reading Course, Oct. 1, 1913.). Fig. 385. — Black CarpetBeetle. (Herrick SanitaryScience Series No. 3, Cor-nell Reading Course, , 1913.)
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