Note h — BOOK VIII.

And as Birds, so the several Sorts of Beasts have their peculiar Sorts of Lice; all distinct from the two Sorts infesting Man: Only the Ass, they say, is free, because our Saviour rode upon one, as some think; but I presume it is rather from the Passage in Pliny, L. 11. c. 33. or rather Arist. Hist. Animal. L. 3. c. 31. who saith, Quibus pilus est, non carent eodem [Pediculo] excepto Asino, qui non Pediculo tantùm, verùm etiam Redivio immunis est. And a little before, speaking of those in Men, he shews what Constitutions are most subject to them, and instanceth in Alcman the Poet, and Pherecydes Syrius that died of the Pthiriasis, or Lowly Disease. For which foul Distemper, if Medicines are desired, Moufet de Insect. p. 261. may be consulted. Who in the same Page hath this Observation, Animadverterunt nostrates——ubi Asores insulas à tergo reliquerint, Pediculos confestim omnes tabascere: atque ubi eas reviserint, iterum innumeros alios subitò oriri. Which Observation is confirmed by Dr. Stubs. Vid. Lowth. Abridg. V. 3. p. 558. And many Seamen have told me the same.