Word: lice
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...From Our Towns: Close Up, a new book about the British slum-children evacuees: head lice were found on 20.8% of the Liverpool children, 19.8% of the Middlesbrough children and 17.3%of the Manchester children...
...Body dusting powder is less a luxury than a necessity in tropical warfare. Fungus infections (like "athlete's foot") start and spread quickly in the damp heat. A new after-bath powder contains natural and synthetic insecticides to ward off typhus-carrying lice...
...feet, seven inches tall and was broad in proportion. As a child, says Mrs. Wolfe, Tom was breast-fed "until he was three and a half years old," slept with his mother "until he was a great big boy." Only when Tom got "what old-fashioned people called lice," did his mother consent to cut his "beautiful curls." She still clung to him, however, and kept him in short pants until two years before he went to the University of North Carolina...
Nursing Sick Pigs. Best help in preventing hog worms is good pasture rotated so that young pigs (most susceptible to worms) are put on parasite-free soil. Lice, which may cause restlessness and lack of appetite, can be killed by oily dips. Lime and sulfur solution controls mange. In each case, the whole pig must be dipped. Usual system is to make him swim through a dip 40 or more inches deep, duck his head somewhere en route...
China's Army of 5,000,000 has less than 1,000 doctors (the U.S. aim is to have six and a half doctors for every 1,000 troops). Chinese soldiers are universally infested with lice, making them ready prey to typhus. Modern methods of camp sanitation are almost unknown. For every man wounded or killed, ten die of disease. (In the U.S. World War I army, only one died of disease for every 14 wounded or killed...