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Word: vanderhook (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1974-1974
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...Raymond Vanderhook, Indiana's director of communicable-disease control, issued forthright prescriptions: "Put your head in water at 128°-130° Fahrenheit. This will kill both nits and lice in three minutes. Or use a hair dryer so the heat is strong enough to cause a tingling of the scalp for five minutes." For victims who prefer not to cook their brains there are over-the-counter shampoos that may help and a highly effective prescription emulsion called Kwell. When classes resume, school nurses will examine the heads of all the pupils and allow only those with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Nitpickers of Anderson | 1/7/1974 | See Source »

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