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Combating Lousiness among Soldiers and Civilians

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

George H. F. Nuttall
George H. F. Nuttall
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(From the Quick Laboratory, University of Cambridge.)
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“Man, the chief lord of other animals, is, notwithstanding his power, the food and ordinary abode of this vermin, who riots in his blood, and sometimes colonizes his body with innumerable and detestable offspring. When such a mean, disgustful insect as this, can raise legions sufficient to render thee loathsome, and even to destroy thee, O man! where is thy boasted greatness?” Barbut (1781, p. 328).

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Parasitology , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , May 1918 , pp. 411 - 586
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1918

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