Bombyx Processionea

An insect belonging to the class Lepidoptera.

Common >i<inie, Procession moth (common in Europe, on oak trees).f Preparation, Tincture of the live caterpillars.

Authorities. 1, Calomel, N. Journ. cle Med., vol. 9, effects of disturbing a nest ; 2, Galignani's Messenger (Pharm. J., 22, 136), a boy shook from a tree an immense number of the caterpillars into his naked breast.

Eyes

Painful swelling of the lids

Lachrymation

Stomach and Extremities

Nausea

In the morning, swelling of the hands and finger-joints

Skin

Skin covered with large red spots, which were soon followed by a general swelling

Dr. C. preserved a nest of the caterpillars in a large glass vial, which was not opened for ten years. At length it was opened in the presence of several persons, all of whom caught the eruption

If a nest of the insects is touched or stirred up, persons within reach of the emanations arising therefrom will be attacked with a papulous eruption, more or less confluent, which will last several days and be attended with violent itching

The arms are covered with hard, large, uneven, areolaformed tubercles, with a led areola, so thick as to leave hardly any space between

Eruption of a wonderful number of linear-formed tubercles over the whole arm, and even over the chest and abdomen ; most marked near all the joints

Sensation as if a foreign body were under the skin

Itching of whole body

A severe itching sensation, so that he was compelled to run home for assistance

Itching, evenings, not relieved by anything

Itching of both hands, increasing to a pain

Sleep and Dreams

Frequent waking, nights

Dreams that the arm is being cauterized, and arrows thrust into the muscles

Fever

Burning heat ; great desire to scrape the skin

Violent heat of arms and face

Fever, somnolency, and delirium, followed by death

Footnotes

† Avenues in the Boil de Boulogne are sometimes closed, to protect the public from the irritation of the skin that the hairs of this caterpillar cause.