134 LICE AND THEIR MENACE TO MAN 



Horse-flies contrasted with lice as 



regards pain of bite, 29 

 specialisation to host, 2 

 Hot air chambers, 58 

 Hunger typhus, 100 

 Hunter, Col. W., 52 



Incubation of egg of body-louse, 



23 



of crab-louse, 79 

 period in trench fever, 128 

 Infection of lice by relapsing fever, 



104 



trench fever, 121 

 typhus, 111 



Infestation, body-louse, by, 41 

 crab-louse, by, 79 

 famines increasing, 113 

 head-lice, by, 3, 70 

 origin of, 5, 39 

 troops, of, 41 



Influenza, trench fever resemb- 

 ling, 123, 124 



Inspections for lice, 10, 42, 65 

 lodoform, 63 

 Ironing, 45 

 Irritation caused by lice, 6, 27, 



71, 81, 83, 127 

 Itching. See Irritation 



Kerosene, 62 

 Kit-bags, lice in, 40 



Larva of body-louse, 24 



of crab-louse, 79 



of flea, 24 



Latrines, crab-lice spread by, 81 

 Lauder, Capt. J. La Fayette, 115 

 Laundry, lice surviving, 40 

 Leather, disinfestation of, 50 

 Lefroy, Prof., 63 

 Legs of body-louse, 14 



of crab-louse, 77 

 Lice, bites of. See Bites 



body hair, on, 65, 70, 79 



danger of, 9 



dead, appearance of, 51, 62 



diseases carried by, 9 



ignorance in regard to, 4 



migration of, in fever, 84 



origin of, 5 



species of, infesting man, 3 



Malaria, 66 

 Male body-louse, 14 

 Mallophaga, 1 

 Malpighian tubes, 16 

 Mashakalumbwe, lice on, 72 

 McNee on trench fever, 126 



Mercury ointment, 64, 82 

 Metamorphosis of body-louse, 25 

 of crab-louse, 25 

 of flea, 80 

 Migration of body - lice from 



corpses, 36, 113 

 clothing, 36, 40 

 in fever, 84 

 of crab-louse, 80 

 Mobile disinfestors, 53 

 Moczutovski, 110 

 Monkeys, human lice on, 2 



lousing, 44 



Mosquitoes contrasted with lice 

 as regards difficulty of 

 control, 66 

 feeding habits, 2, 30 

 skin maggots conveyed by, 35 

 Moulting of body-louse, 25 



of crab-louse, 80 

 Moustache, crab-lice on, 79 

 Mouth of louse, 15 



N.C.I., 61, 63 



Naphthalene, 60, 62, 75 



Nervous system, 17 



Neurasthenia caused by lice, 9 



Nicolle on typhus, 111 



Nits. See Eggs 



Nose, infection through. 105 



Nuttall on biology of crab-louse, 



78, 81 



on coitus of lice, 31 

 on dry-storage of clothing, 46 

 on hatching of egg, 23 

 on oviposition of louse, 21, 70 

 on Pediculus humanus, 3 

 on transmission of relapsing 

 fever, 104 



Nymph,. 26 



Obermeyer, 101 

 Oesophagus, 15 

 Offspring of infected lice, 83, 111 



of ticks, 103 

 Oils, 18, 63, 73 

 Ointment naphthalene, 62, 75, 82 



mercury, 64, 82 

 Operculum of egg of body-louse, 21 



of crab-louse, 79 



Ornithodorus moubala, feeding of, 

 29 



habits of, 103 



relapsing fever transmitted by, 



103 



Orr, Capt. H., 52 

 Ovaries, 19 

 Oven, 50 

 Oviposition, 21 



