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Such were some of the historic manifestations of the terrifying might of typhus which Harvard's Professor Hans Zinsser, foremost U. S. authority on the disease, details in his Rats, Lice & History, published this week by Little, Brown & Co. Week before publication Dr. Zinsser sailed for France to lecture at the University of Paris...
...Photographers point for faces & figures. Tabloid and Hearstmen go after "cheese-cake"?leg-pictures of sporty females. All keep sharp guard against "lens-lice"? nonentities who try to force their way into a picture. To get rid of a pest a photographer may have to "French it"?pretend to take a picture, but without a plate in the camera...
...feeding, could be shipped long distances. But even when warmed up the ladybird beetle is too temperamental to breed in captivity, so that every one shipped has to be captured. Bogue has squads of men prowling the slopes, shaking the bugs from bushes into boxes. Other eaters of plant-lice he successfully breeds and sells, but the ladybird is his headliner. He ships to all agricultural states, refuses to disclose the names of his customers fearing competition and possible price-cutting. He estimates that a grower can police his land with Bogue ladybirds at a cost...
...discover that all the variously-named illnesses were the same disease, caused by Bacterium tularense. He named it tularemia. Periodically thinning out the rabbit population by thousands, tularemia also affects many another small animal. Its germ is carried from animal to animal by deer-flies, ticks, lice, fleas. Man may contract it from insect bites, or by direct contact with an infected animal. It usually begins with a small ulcer at the point of infection, followed by glandular swelling. Tularemia kills only about 4% of its human victims but illness is painful, convalescence slow. Up to 1924 only 15 human...
...hospitals against aerial bombing. . . . "The wounded we treated were young, and in most instances finely developed men. They were orderly and well be haved. All were free of active venereal disease. Most were admitted in a state of exhaustion with badly soiled clothing and dirty bodies heavily infested with lice. . . . "Bayonet and sword cuts with frequent powder burns gave evidence of close fighting. There were no victims or evidence of chemical warfare. A majority of the wounds were through-and-through bullet wounds with small sharply defined point of entrance and large jagged exit. The wounds were invariably infected, many...