CRAB-LICE, a troublesome kind of vermin, which flick
stick so fast with their claws to the skin as to render it difficult to dislodge them. Being viewed with a glass they nearly resemble the small crab-fish; whence they obtained their popular name. They are also called punctula, morpione, petola, and peffolata: they usually infest the arm-pits and pubes. They will be quickly destroyed, and drop off dead, upon the application of a rag wet with the milk of sublimate. This sort of vermin is reckoned to prognosticate speedy mortality to those whom they abandon without being removed by medicine.