Word: lice
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...streets and in company a gentleman should be "Grave, Settled and attentive," should refrain from swatting "Fleas, lice, ticks &c in the Sight of Others." A gentleman should not run, dawdle, or walk with his mouth open, shaking his arms and kicking his feet "in a Dancing fashion." Clothes should not be "foul, unript [torn] or Dusty," hands should not be put "to any Part of the Body, not usually Discovered...
...German anti-lice lotion may free the Nazi Army of the specter which haunted it last winter in Eastern Europe -typhus fever. The formula is still a German secret which the Russians would like to share. But the A.M.A. Journal last fortnight gave one possible clue to its ingredients. A Professor Morell put lice on horses, observed that they fell off dead almost at once. The lice were killed, he discovered, by the horses' sweat...
...dozen notebooks. Japanese, who take for granted their own correspondents are spies, refused to believe he was not one. In Cell No. 5, a 12-by-18-ft. cage with six-inch bars, he was dumped among 40 prisoners-consumptives, lepers, syphilitics, even a few Japanese. Eaten alive by lice, they tried to keep warm by crowding five or six together under one filthy blanket. Rations were rice, occasionally embellished by fish heads and seaweed. Forbidden to talk to each other, the prisoners were compelled to sit on the floor, in rows, for easier counting during change of guards...
Yaws, afflicting about a third of all Haitians, long confused with syphilis because of their loathesome, gaping sores. Spread mainly by flies, also by ticks, lice and bedbugs, yaws affect mostly Negroes, "is a consequence of abject poverty." It can be cured by salvarsan, but the process is costly, painful, interminable...
...Recently there have been many instances of envelopes mailed at field posts containing live lice to show to families. The senders do not realize the danger . . . of spreading typhus. ... A mutual comradely education must prevent the country from being subjected to such acts...