Treatment

The treatment, of this affection involves the employment of some anti-parasitic application, and the one most in vogue is the common "blue ointment". When, however, the patient will consent to it, shaving of the affected parts is to be preferred. The affection is most frequently contracted during sexual intercourse, but may be derived from wearing infected clothing, or sleeping in an infected bed. The patient's under-clothes and bed-clothes should be boiled or baked, in order to destroy the insects and their eggs.