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scabies???


Scabiosa
(Scabious / Pincushion Flower)

"The genus name comes from the Latin word “scabies”, meaning “the itch”, because the plant was believed to cure scabies, a highly contagious parasitic skin infection caused by the itch mite Sarcoptes scabiei."





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"...scabies, which is troublesome at all ages, but it is also dangerous at our age … Since five months, this illness oppresses me so much that the hands are prevented to use the pen and to take the food, but they serve only to scratch..." - Petrarch (1365)