Antiochus, surnamed the "Madman," was also
afflicted with it; and Josephus makes mention of it as afflicting
the body of Herod the Great. The so-called "King Pym" died of
this "morbus pedicularis," but as prejudice and passion militated
against him during his life and after his death, this fact is
probably more rumor than verity. A case is spoken of by Curran,
which was seen by an army-surgeon in a very aged woman in the
remote parts of Ireland, and another in a female in a
dissecting-room in Dublin. The tissues were permeated with lice
which emerged through rents and fissures in the body.
Instances of the larvae of the estrus or the bot-fly in the skin
are not uncommon. In this country Allen removed such larvae from
the skin of the neck, head, and arm of a boy of twelve. Bethune,
Delavigne, Howship, Jacobs, Jannuzzi and others, report similar
cases. These flesh-flies are called creophilae, and the condition
they produce is called myiosis. According to Osler, in parts of
Central America, the eggs of a bot-fly, called the dermatobia,
are not infrequently deposited in the skin, and produce a
swelling very like the ordinary boil. Matas has described a case
in which the estrus larvae were found in the gluteal region.
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