British medical journal . e, whilstothers suffer very considerably. The trouble is caused by themite implanting its mouth parts in the skin, preferably inhair folhcles cr sweat glands. When it is once fixed itrarely moves. The body remains, of course, on the sur-face of the skin as a little reddish-orange point, scarcelyperceptible unless many of them are congregated iu thesame position. The effect of their presence is to produce aswelling in the skin which may be as large as a split pea,accompanied by an intense itching and a smarting whichbanishes sleep. This leads to the patients scratching
British medical journal . e, whilstothers suffer very considerably. The trouble is caused by themite implanting its mouth parts in the skin, preferably inhair folhcles cr sweat glands. When it is once fixed itrarely moves. The body remains, of course, on the sur-face of the skin as a little reddish-orange point, scarcelyperceptible unless many of them are congregated iu thesame position. The effect of their presence is to produce aswelling in the skin which may be as large as a split pea,accompanied by an intense itching and a smarting whichbanishes sleep. This leads to the patients scratching, andthis scratching is the departiue-point of many papules appear and eczematous patches, andwhen the mites are very numerous an erythema, namedby Rabies Erijihema autuvinale, supei-venes. The skiu near the point of punctureswells, becomes red, some-times almost purple, audirregular patches, which maybe confluent, appear a centi-metre in diameter. These skin troubles, whichmay end iu a kind of general-.
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