INDEX 



135 



Paraffin, 62, 75 



Parasites, dissemination of, 35 



of relapsing fever, 101 

 Peacock on disinfestors, 52 



on eggs on blankets, 40 



on locomotion of lice, 38 



on lousiness of troops, 41 



on N.C.I., 63 



on senses of lice, 37 

 Pediculus capilis, 3, 69 



corporis, 3, 11, 21, 34 



humanus, 3 



vestimenti, 3 

 Penis, 20 



Peristalsis of gut, 16, 29 

 Perkins on typhus, 116, 117 

 Petrol, 62 

 Pharynx, 15 

 Phth'irus pubis, 3, 76 

 Pigs, human lice on, 2 

 Pit, Russian, 58 

 Plague, 2, 66, 68 

 Pomades, 73 



Prevalence of lice, 3, 43, 112 

 Priestley, Major A. E., 115 

 Prison camps in Germany, 9, 134 

 Progression of body-louse, 37 



of crab-louse, 78, 80 

 Protozoa, 101 

 Pubic hair, body-louse on, 70 



crab-louse on, 79 



head-louse, on, 70 



Rat fleas, 2, 66 

 Rearing of body-lice, 32 



of crab-lice, 78 



of head-lice, 70 

 Rectum, 17 



Reinfestation, 64, 65, 75, 82 

 Relapses of trench fever, 125 

 Relapsing fever, 9, 83, 99, 100 

 Repellants, 60 

 Reproduction of body-louse, 32 



of crab-louse, 79 

 Reproductive organs, 16, 20 

 Respiratory system, 17 

 Rheumatism, trench fever resemb- 

 ling, 123, 124 

 Roumania, relapsing fever in, 107 



typhus in, 116 



Russian Army, typhus in, 114 

 Russian pit, 58 



Salivary glands, 17 



secretion of, 28 



* causing fever, 83 

 Sanitary bins as disinfestors, 55 



Scratching louse-bites, 7, 9 



loosening hair, 81 



infection, causing, 9 

 by relapsing fever, 105 

 by trench fever, 127 

 by typhus, 111 

 Scratching sticks, 4 

 Serbia, typhus in, 52, 116 

 Serbian barrel, 52 

 Sergent on relapsing fever, 104 

 Sex of lice, distinctions, 14 

 Shaving of body hair, 64, 82 

 Shin pain in trench fever, 123, 



125 



Sick, cleansing of, 112, 119 

 Skin, effects of lice on, 7, 80, 83 



of louse, 25 

 Sleeping sickness, 66 

 Sleeplessness caused by lice, 9 

 Soap shortage and epidemics, 113 

 Soft soap, 62 

 Specialisation of lice, 2 

 Species of lice infesting man, 3 

 Spiracles, 18, 63 

 Spirochaetes, 101, 104 

 Spread. See Dissemination 

 Stabber, 15, 28 

 Stammers, Lt.-Col. G. F., 52 

 Starvation of lice, 37 

 Steam chambers, 55 

 Storage, disinfestation by, 46 

 Sucking lice, 2 

 Sulphur, 63 



Superstitions concerning lice, 6, 57 

 Sutcliffe, Capt. A. C., 115 

 Sweat dissolving louse excreta, 31 



dried, obscuring crab-lice, 78 



Tabanidae. See Horse-flies 

 Temperature, disinfection of louse 



excreta, 49 

 disinfestation, in, 48, 49, 53, 



57 



recording, 58 

 effect on development of louse, 



29 



incubation of egg, 23 

 starvation of louse, 37 

 louse-borne diseases, in, 99, 



124 



lysol solution, of, 61 

 Testes, 20 



Tick. See Ornithodorus 

 Todd on relapsing fever, 103, 104 

 Tracheae, 17 

 Transmission of relapsing fever, 



102 



of trench fever, 127 

 of typhus, 111 



