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  • A woman delouses a child and another woman waits with her child. Etching by J.B. de Wael.
  • A Spanish family picking lice or fleas from each other's heads. Coloured etching, 1812.
  • A Spanish family picking lice or fleas from each other's heads. Coloured etching, 1812.
  • A woman wearing spectacles picking fleas from a child's head. Etching by J. Miel.
  • Durban, Natal, South Africa: an Indian mother de-louses the hair of a child held on her lap. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • Pubic louse, tip of tail, SEM
  • Pubic louse, SEM of head end.
  • Pubic louse, tail end, CU spikes, SEM.
  • Pubic louse, dorsal view. SEM
  • Public louse, 1st claw of 2nd leg, SEM.
  • Pubic louse, suckers on tail piece, SEM.
  • Pubic louse, close-up of mouth, SEM.
  • Pubic louse scales, SEM.
  • Pubic louse, close-up of head, SEM
  • Pubic louse, mouthparts, SEM.
  • Pubic louse, tail end with suckers, SEM
  • Pubic louse, ventral view, SEM, colour- blue
  • Pubic louse, ventral view, SEM.
  • Pubic louse, SEM
  • Pubic louse, 2nd & 3rd claws, SEM.
  • Pubic louse, ventral view, SEM, colour-green
  • Pubic louse, ventral view, SEM, colour -gold
  • Pubic louse, ventral view, SEM.
  • A peasant family in a farm-house. Etching by F. Bartolozzi after G. Zocchi.
  • Pubic louse, close-up of claws, SEM
  • A peasant family in a farm-house. Etching by F. Bartolozzi after G. Zocchi.
  • Pubic louse, ventral view, SEM.
  • Crabs representing a nickname for pubic lice or 'VD' with chinese lettering; a safe-sex advertisement by AIDS Concern, Hong Kong. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • Pharmascript : bad taste pays off!.
  • Pharmascript : bad taste pays off!.