. Animal parasites and messmates. Parasites. PARASITES FKEE DURING THEIB WHOLE LIFE. 125 parasites of the mammalia, and three species live at the expense of man: the louse of the head, of which Swam- merdam gave a detailed description in his work entitled "Biblia Naturae"; the body-louse, which lives on the bodies of filthy people, forms a dis- tinct species; the third species is the louse which occasions the disease called pedicularis, or Phthiriasis. These insects were formerly much more common than they are at the J Fig. 17.—Louse of the present day. In 1825 Dr. Sichel un- publish
. Animal parasites and messmates. Parasites. PARASITES FKEE DURING THEIB WHOLE LIFE. 125 parasites of the mammalia, and three species live at the expense of man: the louse of the head, of which Swam- merdam gave a detailed description in his work entitled "Biblia Naturae"; the body-louse, which lives on the bodies of filthy people, forms a dis- tinct species; the third species is the louse which occasions the disease called pedicularis, or Phthiriasis. These insects were formerly much more common than they are at the J Fig. 17.—Louse of the present day. In 1825 Dr. Sichel un- published . a monograph concerning them; and there appeared in the " Gazette Medicale" of 1871, a long article on the history of Phthiriasis, It is stated that several great personages have fallen victims to its attack, but these observations date from a period when it was thought that they could be spon- taneously originated. It is in fact difficult to believe, as it has seriously been stated, that lice have been seen to issue from the bodies of men like a spring of water from the earth. A physician of the 16th century, named Amatus Lusitanus, speaks of a great Portuguese noble- man who was so covered with lice that two of his servants were constantly occupied in collecting them and carrying them to the sea. Andrew Murray has published a memoir on the lice of the various races of men. The name of helminthiasis has been proposed for worm disease in general, and either taeniaceous or lumbricoidian helminthiasis, according to the species which made its appearance. These parasites were con- sidered to be formed spontaneously, and their presence. 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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