Lice Collection

Suffragette Cat Scratch and Fight Police. Cat with Votes for Women sign around its neck proclaims, I m a catty suffragette, I scratch and fight the P lice, so long as they withhold the vote

Searching for Head-Lice
A Catalan woman searches a childs head for lice (pediculis capitis) and nits (eggs or young lice) at Amelie-les-Bains

Lice bane, Delphinium staphisagria, and lousewort, Pedicularis sylvatica. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

A mobile, military washing machine being guarded by troops
Horse-drawn machine was designed to rid a soldiers bedding from lice and infectious diseases. Steam is used to clean the bedding and uniforms. Straw-filled mattresses can be seen in the foreground

WEIGHING A PUPIL
The Nit Nurse checks a young boy for head lice as the rest of the class look on with interest and possible apprehension! Date: 1958

NIT-PICKING, CATALONIA
A Catalan woman searches a childs head for lice (pediculis capitis) and nits (eggs or young lice) at Amelie-les-Bains Date: 1904

The De-Lousing Establishment at Samsun, Turkey
The De-Lousing Establishment/Station/Building at Samsun, Turkey Date: 1923

WW2 Poster -- Typhus, How Is It Spread?
Information poster on typhus and how it is spread. Colour lithograph, British Army anti-typhus medical information poster, after 2nd Lieutenant Stacey Hopper

Pthirus pubis, crab louse
A crab louse with a body length 3.5 mm, this species of louse is known to sometimes infest the human body

Search for Head Lice
The Nit Nurse checks a young boy for head lice as the rest of the class look on with interest and possible apprehension!

Barklouse in amber
A Barklouse, Pscoptera preserved in Dominican amber. Specimen dates from the Lower Miocene

Pediculus humanus, human head louse
Scanning electron microscope image of a human head louse (x 60). These external parasites use their hook-like claws to grip the hair

Microthoracius cameli, camel sucking louse
A female specimen of a camel sucking louse (Microthoracius cameli) approximately 4mm in length

Porcellio sp. woodlouse

Copepod parasite
Specimen jar containing copepod parasites, which live on the body surface of salmon and in large numbers can cause damage to the fish. Specimens held at the Natural History Museum, London

Glyptonotus antarcticus

Sipha glyceriae, aphids
Aphid or plant lice are small, plant-sucking insects. Aphids tend to form in clusters and prefer young shoots and succulent leaves

De-lousing illustration
A Hortus watercolour published in 1491 which illustrates de-lousing in Hortus Sanitatis from Mediaeval Natural History

Pthirus gorillae, gorilla louse
Photomicrograph of a gorilla louse specimen, length 2.5 mm from Rwanda / Zaire. The gorilla louse is from the same genus as the human louse

Filossera della vite
Tav. 3a. Illustrations of various mites and lice from Conoscenza delle Fillosserine 1912 by B. Grassi

Mother searching for nits in boys hair
" Another Air Raid - Many Casulaties...!" A Mother searching for headlice in a boys hair with a large comb. The lad seems to be finding the whole experience singularly unpleasant

Looking for Nits and lice
A Russian woman searches a teenage boys head for lice (pediculis capitis) and nits (eggs or young lice)

The Four Beggars
Beggars of France, Spain Germany and Italy complain of being infested by fleas, crabs, lice and bugs respectively

Insects / Lice
various kinds of louse

Working Class Home
A working mans home at Lincoln Court, London : mantelpiece ornaments contrast with the mother searching her childs head for lice, and washing hanging up to dry

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