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...most serious brush with occupational disease came in 1932. Dr. Dyer was one of a team which had just about proved that U.S. endemic typhus is borne by rat fleas (instead of human body lice, as in Old World epidemic typhus). Then an infected rat flea in PHS's misnamed Hygienic Laboratory bit Dr. Dyer. That clinched it: he got a severe case of typhus. Previously he had thought of endemic typhus as a mild form of the disease. Now he said: "Where do they get that 'mild' stuff? I talked to the angels the last three...
Diseases spread by ticks, lice, bed-bugs, mosquitoes, and flies will be the subject of a new course taught by Dr. Henry S. Fuller, research associate on Entomology...
...usherettes. (Occasionally the house managers show the zaniness of their U.S counterparts: when the supercolossal Battleship Potemkin was showing in Moscow the usherettes were dressed as sailors.) Moviegoers sit on unpadded wooden chairs. In the winter the little theaters have some heat, little or no fresh air, great many lice...
...tops of nine waves in a dish, then dump the contents on the head of the patient. Asthma could be dispatched by rolling spider webs into a ball and then swallowing them; epilepsy was dealt with by driving a nail into the spot where the sufferer had fallen. Nine lice eaten with a piece of bread & butter cured jaundice, and a poultice of sheep's dung cleared up erysipelas in no time...
Insect Irruptions. Hoffmann & Linduska want no one to think that DDT is foolproof. If used incorrectly, they concede that it can cause major trouble Heavy doses (5 lbs. or more per acre) might poison birds and small mammals and cause insect "irruptions." Aphids (plant lice) sometimes multiply disastrously when too much DDT has killed too many of their natural. enemies. But careful observations made all over the U.S. show that moderate spraying with DDT has little or no effect on birds, reptiles or mammals-and successfully gets rid of the pests...