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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 (Berthelet), 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. 
Batman's addition to Bartholomew, bk. xviii. § 116. 
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Tus disease is undoubtedly created from the very flesh 
of man, and yet invisibly. Hortus Sanitatis, bk. ii, § 119, 
Tue old skin or slough that snakes do cast off in the 
spring, whosoever drinketh in his ordinary drink, it will 
kill 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 
have been very common. |] 
