Word: lice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lice. Dr. Nikolic, another Partisan surgeon, is a little, weary man with a fighter's heart and a scholar's mind (in 1926 he held a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship to study malaria). In 1943 the Germans put him in a concentration camp, held him there nine months until the Partisans traded a German officer for him. Among the Partisans his fight has been as much against disease as against wounds...
Last summer 35% of Tito's men had typhus, said Dr. Nikolic. So he declared war on lice, and two months ago the rate had dropped to less than 1%. But disease, as in all wars, still kills more than enemy bullets...
From time to time live lice in a linen bag were dipped into the tin: if they lived, logs were added to the fire. Later, bread ovens and even rooms, heated from outside, were used for the same purpose. To prevent clothes from catching fire, paper slips were used as indicators: if they toasted black the temperature was too high; if yellow, just right...
...prices in Indian village markets. The ants, called Hau, are eaten raw. In tests on rats, Mittra & Mitra found that the ants rated high in digestibility. Chemically analyzed, they were rich in carbohydrates and protein. Encouraged by these findings, the Journal suggested studies of other bugs such as head lice and bedbugs, highly fancied by Melanesians...
Attention, M. Miller--we quote from a Baker encyclopaedia: "the Catta Pilosa, commonly referred to as the caterpillar, is one of the most clean of its species. Erroneously believed to be a lice carrier, the 'catta' actually feeds upon lice and sand fleas...