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Swift. Odious dog; and so are all his descendants. Duke Hamilton. Swift. An arrant Scot. Ibid. Clarendon. Swift. What! in Scotland? About this time the councils at Westminster lost a principal supporter, by the death of John Pym; who died with great torment and agony of a disease unusual, and therefore the more spoken of, morbus pediculosus, as was reported. Swift.
The expression, morbus pediculosus, as being better known would strike more." See ante, p. 79, note 1. See ante, p. 69. See ante, i. 402. See ante, i. 167. See post, under Sept. 30, 1783. See post, ib., where Johnson told Mrs. Siddons that 'Garrick was no declaimer. Foote died a month after this conversation. Johnson wrote to Mrs. Thrale: 'Did you see Foote at Brighthelmstone?
This disease, called Morbus Pediculosus or Pthiriasis, is not unknown in modern times. Plutarch has collected instances from ancient times. Akastus belongs to the mythic period. Alkman lived in the seventh century B.C.: fragments of his poetry remain. This Pherekydes was what the Greeks called Theologus, a man who speculated on things appertaining to the nature of the gods.
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