RT Journal
T1 LIce and their menace to man.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1919
FD August 23
VO 73
IS 8
SP 631
OP 631
DO 10.1001/jama.1919.02610340063032
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610340063032
AB Recent war experiences have served to add to our knowledge of the rôle played by the insects in the transmission of disease. As a result of the Spanish-American War, we discovered that yellow fever was transmitted exclusively by mosquitos and that flies might under certain conditions be one of the chief agencies in the spread of typhoid fever. During the present war attention was focused on the menace of lice and an opportunity was offered to clarify and increase our knowledge. The author of this little book has aimed at presenting in a concise and readable manner the data accumulated in regard to various kinds of lice, their etiologic relations to various diseases and the methods found most successful for their extermination. In his avowed task of writing "for the general reader rather than for the specialist" he has succeeded quite well, and his book can be recommended to those