This microscopic animal penetrates the skin, especially about the toes, producing an inflammatory swelling, vesicle or pustule, or even ulceration. It is met with in warm and tropical countries.
Treatment consists in extraction. Essential oils are used as a preventive. A carbolic-acid or alkaline lotion relieves irritation.
Cimex Lectularius.
(Synonym: Bed-bug.)
Describe the characters of a bed-bug bite.
An inflammatory papule or wheal-like lesion results, somewhat hemorrhagic; the purpuric or hemorrhagic point or spot remains after the swelling subsides, but finally, in the course of several days or a few weeks, disappears.
Treatment consists in the application of alkaline or acid lotions.
Culex.
(Synonym: Gnat; Mosquito.)
Describe the cutaneous disturbance produced by the culex.