54 AI^IMAL PARASITES, ETC. 



hand to hand. The most high-bred, reiined, and 

 cleanly, are not exempt. Although thus highly 

 contagious, from the mite being passed from one 

 to another, yet students of medicine in contact 

 with it rarely get the itch ; and the writer has 

 examined and handled hundreds of cases with 

 impunity. 



