. Nature study and life. Nature study. 82 NATURE STUDY AND LIFE. generally back of the ears. They are laid in great numbers. Remedies are, first of all, cleanliness and constant vigilance where infection is possible. One thorough application of oil of cajeput to the hair should prove fatal to both lice and nits. Some care should be used not to flood the scalp with the oil, as on tender skins it causes slight inflam- mation and for delicate skins of young children the oil, mixed with an equal amount of vaseline, will prove as effective, with less danger of causing irritation. Larkspur and stron
. Nature study and life. Nature study. 82 NATURE STUDY AND LIFE. generally back of the ears. They are laid in great numbers. Remedies are, first of all, cleanliness and constant vigilance where infection is possible. One thorough application of oil of cajeput to the hair should prove fatal to both lice and nits. Some care should be used not to flood the scalp with the oil, as on tender skins it causes slight inflam- mation and for delicate skins of young children the oil, mixed with an equal amount of vaseline, will prove as effective, with less danger of causing irritation. Larkspur and strong alco- hol are other remedies. The body louse, Pedicu- lus vestmienti, lives and deposits its eggs in the folds and seams of human clothing. A female may lay as many as 2500 eggs a month, and in warm weather many more than this, which accounts for the sudden- ness with which an outbreak may appear. The remedy is thorough boiling of all infested clothing, preferably in salt water. Treatment with carbon bisulphide, as described for clothes moths, is also effective. Bedbugs, Cimex lectularius.—These are insects the long association of which with man, extending as far back as his- toric records, has resulted in development of a consider- able degree of cunning. They bite during the sleep of their victim and under cover of darkness, hiding during daylight in cracks of old-fashioned wooden bedsteads, Fig. 33. Cimex Lectularius (7, adult female gorged with blood; ^, ^%%. (After Marlatt). 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 Hodge, Clifton Fremont, 1859-. Boston and London, Ginn & Co.
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