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SCABIES, or ITCH

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 278 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SCABIES, or ITCH , a skin disease due to an See also:animal See also:parasite, the Sarcoptes scabei (see See also:MITE), which burrows under the epidermis at any See also:part of the See also:body, but hardly ever in the See also:face or See also:scalp of adults; it usually begins at the clefts of the fingers, where its presence may be inferred from several scattered pimples, which will probably have been torn at their summits by the scratching of the patient, or have been otherwise converted into vesicles or pustules. The remedy is See also:soap and See also:water, and See also:sulphur ointment.

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