An American text-book of genito-urinary diseases, syphilis and diseases of the skin . by her with a stickysecretion to the hair close to its emergence from the scalp, the distance at PHTHEIRIASIS. 1197 which they are situated from the skin being somewhat of a criterion of thelength of time the affection has lasted. They are hatched in six days andare matured in eighteen days. The pediculus placed on a susceptible soil increases amazingly. Accord-ing to Lesser, the female if left undisturbed for eight weeks may have a pro-geny of 5000. Symptoms.—This louse causes a good deal of itching, which i
An American text-book of genito-urinary diseases, syphilis and diseases of the skin . by her with a stickysecretion to the hair close to its emergence from the scalp, the distance at PHTHEIRIASIS. 1197 which they are situated from the skin being somewhat of a criterion of thelength of time the affection has lasted. They are hatched in six days andare matured in eighteen days. The pediculus placed on a susceptible soil increases amazingly. Accord-ing to Lesser, the female if left undisturbed for eight weeks may have a pro-geny of 5000. Symptoms.—This louse causes a good deal of itching, which inducesscratching and creates more or less irritation and inflammation of the , irregular patches of moist ec-zema, pustules, and crusts are soon present. These lesions are most marked on theback of the head, which is the regionoftenest attacked. Swelling of the cer-vical and occipital glands rarely fails toappear in chronic cases. In healthy adults irritation and a slight || Skh eruption may be the only symptoms. Boilsand adenitis ending in suppuration are fre-.
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