Scotland Memorial Hospital

AMONG both physicians and the lay public a vague, if not specified, awareness of the harmful effects of caterpillars probably exists. In this connection, and with summer and its varied fauna at hand, it seems appropriate to point out that caterpillars of more than 50 species possess irritative hairs.1 Depending on the species, the effects of the hairs range from a local dermatitis to an alarming, if not frankly dangerous, disorder with systemic signs and symptoms.The most notorious of the alarm-producing caterpillars is the so-called puss caterpillar (Megalopyge opercularis), usually called "woolly slug" in North Carolina and . . .