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Updated: June 18, 2025
Perhaps it was well that it should not, for it has taught us a lesson of the healing faculty of Nature which was needed, and for which many of us have made proper acknowledgments. The less dangerous Pediculus capitis is the favorite remedy of Dr. Mure, the English "Apostle of Homoeopathy." The infinitesimal globules have not become a curiosity as yet, like Perkins's Tractors.
"Ya-as" said Si; "she almost took the hide off sometimes, an' made me yell like an Injun." "Now, Klegg, I don't wish to cause you unnecessary alarm, but I will say that the head insect isn't a circumstance to this one on your arm. As you would express it, perhaps, he can't hold a candle to him. This fellow is the Pediculus Corporis!" "I s'pose that means they eats up Corporals!" said Si.
The sea-breeze during the day was high and dust-laden, but we passed a cool delicious night upon the clean sweet sand, which does not stick or cling. At this altitude there is no fear of bugs and fleas the only dread is Signor "Pediculus." We will begin, with our surveyors, at the valley head, and note the ruins as we stroll down.
And Si's big eyes opened with wonder and fear at the thought that whatever it was he had "got 'em." "I suppose," continued the Captain, "you would like to know the scientific name?" "I reck'n that'll do 's well 's any." "Well, sir, that is a Pediculus. That's a Latin word, but it's his name." "Purty big name fer such a leetle bug, ain't it, Perfessor?" observed Si.
According to Latreille, the pediculus found in the woolly heads of African negroes 'is sufficiently distinct from that of the Circassian to entitle it to the rank of a distinct species; from which, and similar instances, the doctor concludes: 'Whatever may be urged in behalf of the hypothesis of the unity of the animal creation, based upon the alleged metamorphosic changes of types, it is my opinion that the relations of their parasites, and especially the lice which are distributed over nearly all of them, must be considered as fair and full an argument as can be advanced against such hypothesis, for it is taking up the very premises of the hypothesis in opposition. Dr Burnett will perhaps find Sir Charles Lyell ready to break a lance with him on the point at issue.
I must get a peep through that microscope of his and see the pediculus which occupies a larger space in his mental vision than the midnight march of the solar systems. You ought to have seen the way in which the poor dried-up little Scarabee turned towards me.
It is of small size, though it makes us all shrink with horror and disgust. It has six claw-like legs and no wings. It is, in fact, neither more nor less than the clothes louse, the Pediculus vestimenti. Those pompous emblems of authority, the horsehair wigs those musty robes of unctuous dignity were full of dirt, and harboured the wandering bearer of typhus infection.
Even now the Homoeopathists have been introducing the venom of serpents, under the learned title of Lachesis, and outraging human nature with infusions of the pediculus capitis; that is, of course, as we understand their dilutions, the names of these things; for if a fine-tooth-comb insect were drowned in Lake Superior, we cannot agree with them in thinking that every drop of its waters would be impregnated with all the pedicular virtues they so highly value.
It is likely that I 'will be able to speak more definitely, from experience, after a while. Corporis means that he is the kind that pastures on the human body. But there's one thing more about this fellow, some call him Pediculus Vestimenti; that is because he lives around in the clothing."
Then they sat down and engaged in that exciting chase of the Pediculus up and down the seams of their garments, so familiar to all who wore either the blue or the gray. Thousands of nice young men who are now preachers and doctors and lawyers and statesmen, felt just as bad about it at first as Si did.
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