Word: lice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many, Dr. Zinsser was regarded as the world's leading authority on typhus, the ancient plague which is now known to be virus-borne by human lice and rat fleas. Five years ago, in Rats, Lice and History, he traced with surprising charm the red-brown spots of typhus across world history. This year he announced a method for mass production of a typhus vaccine...
...clear that "R. S." and his old friend Hans Zinsser (Rats, Lice and History-TIME, Feb. 11, 1935) are one and the same man. Thanks to this adroit device, Dr. Zinsser eats, has and hands out whatever cake he pleases. As R. S. he shoots off his mouth to his heart's content...
Typhus and Typhoid. Carried by the louse and the rat-flea is Rickettsia prowazeki, a tiny organism which causes the dirty pink eruptions, burning fever and wild delirium of typhus fever. Prevention is simple: "no lice, no typhus." Also louse-borne is trench fever, a milder relative of typhus, which made its first appearance in World...
...really fond of lice. Last week the Lancet, British medical weekly, put in its two-pennyworth-a diatribe against the louse which rivaled Robert Burns's "ugly, creepin', blastit wonner, detested, shunn'd by saunt an' sinner...
...buried under a gravel slide, got one foot frozen, had the end of his thumb sliced by Harvey (deliberate torture), got his jaw knocked half in two by an ax (Harvey again, an accident, no apology). Occasionally a cowboy stopped for a few days - most of them left lice -or a river baptism relieved the monotony: "As the women waded into the river, gasping with every breath, their long wrappers floated about their legs. Brother Jim, mindful of their virtue, would stoop and shove the dry fabric down, holding fast to the lady with one hand, and shove and shove...