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The Journal of a Disappointed Man
·
W. N. P. Barbellion
238
August12.
Suffering
from
indigestion.
The
symptoms
include:
Excessive
pandiculation,
Excessive
oscitation,
Excessive
eructation,
Dyspnœa,
Sphygmic
flutters,
Abnormal
porrigo,
A
desiccated
epidermis.
August
16.
Lice
or
"Creeping
Ferlies"[5]
I
probably
know
more
about
Lice
than
was
ever
before
stored
together
within
the
compass
of
a
single
human
mind!
I
know
the
Greek
for
Louse,
the
Latin,
the
French,
the
German,
the
Italian.
I
can
reel
off
all
the
best
remedies
for
Pediculosis:
I
am
acquainted
with
the
measures
adopted
for
dealing
with
the
nuisance
in
the
field
by
the
German
Imperial
Board
of
Health,
by
the
British
R.A.M.C.,
by
the
armies
of
the
Russians,
the
French,
the
Austrians,
the
Italians.
I
know
its
life
history
and
structure,
how
many
eggs
it
lays
and
how
often,
the
anatomy
of
its
brain
and
stomach
and
the
physiology
of
all
its
little
parts.
I
have
even
pursued
the
Louse
into
ancient
literature
and
have
read
old
medical
treatises
about
it,
as,
for
example,
the
De
Phthiriasi
of
Gilbert
de
Frankenau.
Mucius
the
lawgiver
died
of
this
disease
so
also
did
the
Dictator
Scylla,
Antiochus
Epiphanes,
the
Emperor
Maximilian,
the
philosopher
Pherecydes,
Philip
II.
of
Spain,
the
fugitive
Ennius,
Callisthenes,
Alcman
and
many
other
distinguished
people
including
the
Emperor
Arnauld
in
899.
In
955,
the
Bishop
of
Noyon
had
to
be
sewn
up
in
a
leather
sack
before
he
could
be
buried.
(See
Des
Insectes
reputés
venimeux,
par
M.
Amoureux
Fils,
Doctor
of
Medicine
in
the
University
of
Montpellier,
Paris,
1789.)
In
Mexico
and
Peru,
a
poll-tax
of
Lice
was
exacted
and
bags
of
these
treasures
were
found
in
the
Palace
of
Montezuma
(see
Bingley,
Animal
Biog.,
first
edition,
iii.).
In
the
United
Service
Magazine
for
1842
(clix.,
169)
is
an
account
of
the
wreck
of
the
Wager,
a
vessel
found
adrift,
the
crew
in
dire
straits
and
Captain
Cheap
lying
on
the
deck--"like
an
ant-hill."
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