Word: lice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pubic lice, commonly known as crabs, will burrow into several hundred thousand college students this year, oblivious to ordinary shampoos and soaps...
Scurvy, scrofula and scabies were common among the poor. Bathing was rare: one Quaker lady noted in her diary in 1799 that she withstood a shower bath "better than I expected, not having been wett all over at once, for 28 years past." Body lice were omnipresent, as was the disease they carried-typhus fever. Frequent births and poor obstetrics accounted for the high mortality in mothers; the death rate among black women served by midwives was lower than among whites served by physicians. Mental illness was seen as the work of the devil: the village idiot was either derided...
...stone" and amputations. With no anaesthesia, the best surgeons were the ones who could cut, hack and saw most rapidly, aided by the strongest assistants to hold the patient down. Herbs and plants were extensively used in treatment. Governor John Winthrop of Massachusetts Bay prescribed a paste of wood lice, while Cotton Mather-who together with Zabdiel Boylston brought inoculation to the colonies in 1721 to prevent serious cases of smallpox-condemned the use by Boston physicians of "Leaden Bullets," to be swallowed for "that miserable Distemper which they called the Twisting of the Guts." By the early 18th century...
...Lice area, which is situated at the juncture of two shifting rock plates, is one of three Turkish regions prone to earthquakes. Even more vulnerable than Lice are towns along the Anatolian fault, which cuts horizontally across the northern tier of Turkey. The third seismic zone is in the west, in Turkey's Aegean provinces. Since 1903 earthquakes have caused more than 64,000 deaths in these three regions...
Angry Turks. In 1966 the government offered to help residents of Lice relocate their homes on safer, flatter terrain below the existing village. Only 150 families were willing to make the move. Their reinforced concrete homes-unlike the older stone and mortar houses on the hillside-survived the recent earthquake with only slight damage. After a special five-hour Cabinet meeting last week, Turkey's Premier Suleyman Demirel promised that an estimated $35 million would be spent to house all the survivors of Lice in similarly quake-proof homes. The U.S. was expected to offer help, but the Turks...