Word: lice
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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...
...there has been no noticeable increase increase in lice infection cases at Harvard this year, Dr.Sholem Postel, associate director of University Health Services (UHS) said yesterday...
...lice are usually transmitted "between sexual partners during intimate physical contact," Dr. Leslie Norins, former chief of the U.S. Public Health Service's Venereal Disease Research Laboratory said yesterday...
Incidents of public lice infection have been increasing on college campuses over the last ten year, Norins said...
...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...