Word: lice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lack of food (no eggs, milk, buttered bread, fresh meat); 2) Heat; 3) Despair growing out of the Baumes Laws, with long terms, reduced paroles, no time off for good behavior; 4) Bedbugs, lice, insanitary plumbing; 5) Overcrowding in cell blocks; 6) Petty graft by low-paid guards; 7) Tyranny of prison self-government (Mutual Welfare League...
...Rusby, 74, professor of botany, physiology and materia medica at Columbia University since 1888. The condition of Spanish and Portuguese ergot Dr. Rusby has usually found good. The usual condition of Polish and Russian ergot has horrified him. He has found it mixed with black-eyed worms and gray lice. Samples were consistently old and mouldy. Extracts often killed experimental animals...
...endemics are so sharply limited disconcerts epidemiologists. They have long believed typhus an acute disease, carried from one person to another directly or by mediancy of head or body lice. But when they studied the Montgomery, Ala., district, the worst typhus focus in the U. S., they found the whites and Negroes of that region as little lousy as the whites and Negroes of the more northerly Birmingham district. Indeed body lice are almost unknown in Alabama, although head lice are found occasionally in school children. Lice apparently are not responsible for Montgomery typhus. In places further south the health...
Only a guess can be made as to the cause of this peculiar typhus endemic; and no one up to last week had made that guess. Some agency other than man and his lice would appear to be responsible for the long preservation of the typhus virus in those limited districts. That agency, be it insect alone or an insect which feeds on some host other than man, must be correspondingly limited in its distribution. Or at least its capacity for acting as a vector to man must be so limited...
...Author. War-author Zweig was intimately acquainted with Flanders lice and oaths and mud, having wallowed thirteen months at Verdun. On the Eastern front he knew similar nastiness, saw deeper implications. A German Jew, 41, he has studied French and English literature, translated much of Kipling's verse. He is no relation to Stefan Zweig, the popular modern who adapted Ben Jonson's Volpone for the Theatre Guild...