Acarus

All the time I had been in Ceram I had suffered much from the irritating bites of an invisible acarus, which is worse than mosquitoes, ants, and every other pest, because it is impossible to guard against them. ❋ Unknown (2004)

These gentlemen are said (p. 190) to have introduced a stranger in the animal kingdom, a species of _acarus_ or mite amidst a solution of silica submitted to the electric current. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

"Waterton says -- 'The atmosphere of spirit of turpentine will allow neither acarus nor any insect to live in it: Do you believe this?" ❋ Montagu Browne (N/A)

This treatment should be repeated daily until the acarus is destroyed and the animal has regained its normal condition. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

This causes some smarting, but it is effectual; it kills the _acarus_, (itch animalcule) and in a few days the sores heal, the itching all subsides immediately. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

To the invasion of the cutaneous structures by an animal parasite, the sarcoptes scabiei (_acarus scabiei_). ❋ Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1886)

A small parasite (_demodex folliculorum_, _acarus folliculorum_) is sometimes found in the sebaceous mass, but its presence is without etiological significance, as it is also found in healthy follicles. ❋ Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1886)

It is manifest also that a disease in the human subject caused by an acarus or by a fungus would be certainly contagious, since the propagative cause could be transferred from person to person. ❋ Unknown (1884)

It is now known that there are some skin diseases which originate in an acarus, and others which proceed from a fungus. ❋ Unknown (1884)

The disease varies, however, according to the species of acarus which infests the skin, so that we must treat of several different kinds of acariasis. ❋ Charles B. Michener (1877)

_ -- This is a large-sized acarus, though usually miscalled "hen louse," and the disease "poultry lousiness." ❋ Charles B. Michener (1877)

_ -- The acarus (Pl. XXXIX, fig. 2) attacks the heels and lower parts of the legs, especially the hind ones, and may be present for years without extending upon the body. ❋ Charles B. Michener (1877)

_ -- This parasite is a brick-red acarus, visible to the naked eye on a dark ground, and living on green vegetation in many localities. ❋ Charles B. Michener (1877)

Scabs of any thickness may form, but the special features are the intense itching and the presence of the acarus. ❋ Charles B. Michener (1877)

The intense itching will always suggest this parasite, and the discovery of the acarus will identify the disease. ❋ Charles B. Michener (1877)

In seven or eight days the acarus or itch insect will be destroyed. ❋ Unknown (1865)

No one who has not lived and moved about amongst the bush of the tropics can appreciate what a torment the different parasitical species of acarus or ticks are. ❋ Thomas Belt (1855)

If one acarus can live upon strychnine, then it is not impossible that mineral acids should be harmless to others; the germs might be carried through sulphuric acid in air without coming into contact with the acid, as air would pass through in bubbles, in the centre of which they might be suspended; or if like the diatomaceae, they were coated with silex, they might come into contact with it and resist its action. ❋ Unknown (1854)

I saw a little round bag, which I suspected to be the egg of an acarus. ❋ Unknown (1851)