LOUSE.] 



NATURAL HISTORY. 



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citrine [i.e., yellow], long, swift and sharp ; some of melan- 

 cholic humour, and they be coloured as ashes, and be lean 

 and slow in moving. And the leaner that a Louse is, the 

 sharper she biteth and grieveth. 



Bartholomew (Berthelei], bk. xviii. 88. 



LICE cometh also of that cloth that is trained in the 

 wool with the fat or grease of an horse or of a swine, and 

 therefore the Northern cloths worn of a sweating body do 

 breed lice in 12 hours. 



Ba'mari 's addition to Bartholomew, bk. xviii. 116. 



THIS disease is undoubtedly created from the very flesh 

 )f man, and yet invisibly. Hortus Sanitatis, bk. ii. 119. 



THE old skin or slough that snakes do cast off in the 



>ring, whosoever drinketh in his ordinary drink, it will 



:ill all the vermin or Lice of the body within three days. 



Holland's Pliny, bk. xxx. ch. xv. 



[So many remedies are given for this complaint, that it must 

 lave been very common.] 



