AKTHROPODA 569 



or ^ Styracis liquidi 250 



Spiritus vini ]^0.0 



Olei olivarum (55 



When there is no eczema the best results will be obtained with inunctions 

 of balsam of Peru. The patient takes a bath in which he rubs himself briskly 

 with green soap. After an hour, when the skin has become entirely dry, 

 balsam of Peru is rubbed into the entire surface of the body. About ten grams 

 are sufficient for this purpose. The next day the same process is repeated. 

 After forty-eight hours the patient takes another bath, which completes the 

 process. 



In the majority of cases it is well to give a bath to soften the epidermis 

 before beginning the actual treatment. In private practice I prefer, as a rem- 

 edy for scabies, the above-mentioned naphthol salve, which on the first day is 

 twice rubbed into the body and completely allays the itching during the suc- 

 ceeding night. If the itching should return, a third inunction is given upon 

 the second day. The patient is able to follow his ordinary occupation. It 

 is best for him to wear woolen underwear as the salve will less readily adhere 

 to this. Upon the sixth day a bath completes the antiscal)ies treatment. If 

 there is eczema this necessitates further therapeutic measures upon which I 

 cannot here enter. 



The " rapid cures " were formerly much in vogue. In this treatment the 

 patient is put in a warm bath and is rubbed with black soap. The bath should 

 last an hour and a half and be followed by an inunction of 



1^ Sulphuris citrini 10.0 



Potassffi subcarbonati 1.0 



Axungise 40.0 



This finishes the treatment. Sensitive persons readily react to this, as well 

 as to other rapid cures, by an eruption of eczema. 



Certain forms of scabies occur in various domestic and wild animals, in 

 the horse, the sheep, the goat, the camel, the llama, the pig, the dog, the fox 

 and the lion. These parasites occasionally attack man. 



According to Carron du Villards, there are two varieties of aearus in the 

 Antilles which may infect the eye. Fischer saw a decided inflammation of 

 the eye produced by a chicken louse (lipeurus variabilis, Nitzsch) which had 

 found its way into the conjunctival sac. According to Megnin, another aearus, 

 the holothyrus coccinella, Gervais, produces in birds a dangerous disease, 

 which, when transmitted to man, causes itching of the skin and inflammation. 

 Another aearus, called by the inhabitants of the Antilles the arador, burrows 

 into the skin of the eyelids, forming brown, tortuous furrows which may be 

 recognized with the naked eye. Its presence produces severe itching. 



An aearus nephrophages sanguinarius has been found by Miyake and 

 Scriba in the hemorrhagic urine of a Japanese. How important this aearus, 

 which is said most closely to resemble the dermatocopter communis, may be, 

 cannot at present be determined. The significance of the 



Demodex folliculorum, Simon, 1843, 



