Plain home talk about the human system--the habits of men and women--the cause and prevention of disease--our sexual relations and social natures

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Title: Plain home talk about the human system--the habits of men and women--the cause and prevention of disease--our sexual relations and social natures
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Foote. Edward B(liss), 1829-1906. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Marriage
Publisher: New York : Murray Hill publishing company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ng through with one he does not take advice and treatmentto help him out of the state that predisposes to them. SKIN DISEASES. Parasitic Skin Diseases. 587 Even though all persons may not be equally susceptible to annoyanceby parasites, it is fair to classify as parasitic those skin diseases inwhich the parasite can be discovered, and where anti-parasitic treat-ment cures the patient by killing off the parasites. Various skin dis-eases have been found directly due to the irritation of either animal orvegetable parasites, and in the brief space to be allotted to their de-scription we may as well take up the worst first, omitting more thanmere mention of bedbugs and other insects, which, though responsiblefor many a skin irritation, do not abide with us, or rather upon us. Scabies is a disease caused by the doings of the acarus scarabiei, and,though it is only the female that goes below the surface in burrows, she•• sticketh closer than a brother. She may bore half an inch under the
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BURROW OF AN ITCH-MITE, HER EGGS AND EMPTY SHELLS. horny layer (epidermis), leaving her fifty eggs behind her, and then diein her tracks, which, except in very uncleanly persons, may be seen.The skin naturally exhibits inflammatory lesions from so much irrita-tion, and the results may be mistaken for eczema or other disease, forthere is great itching, which may add to and obscure the symptoms.The burrows are most commonly found between the fingers and toes, oron the wrists or breasts, and there is a vesicle where she went in. Ifone can be picked up on the point of a pin it is visible as • • a pearlyobject. though less precious than pearls. They •catch on from oneperson to another, or are acquired by sleeping in another fellows bed orborrowing his clothes; but since they have been discovered, and hos-pitals abound, the itch is far less prevalent than of yore, for a freebath with soft soap and plenty of sulphur ointment will rout them ifused diligently twice a week until the new g

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