Volume X. 
NOVEMBER, 1917 
No. 1 
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PEDICULUS AND PHTHIRUS 
INCLUDING ZOOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL PUBLICATIONS DEALING 
WITH HUMAN LICE, THEIR ANATOMY, BIOLOGY, RELATION 
TO DISEASE, ETC., AND PROPHYLACTIC MEASURES DIRECTED 
AGAINST THEM. 
By GEORGE H. F. NUTTALL, F.R.S. 
{From the Quick Laboratory, University of Cambridge.) 
Introduction. 
This bibliography—the first of the kind hitherto published—deals 
with zoological and medical publications relating to the two species of 
lice ( Pediculus humanus Linn. 1758 and Phthirus pubis Leach, 1815) 
infesting man, the part they play in pathology, the prophylactic measures 
and means of destruction employed against lice, their anatomy and 
biology and other matters pertaining to them. 
The bibliography was compiled in connection with my studies on 
Pediculus, and it is published at this stage of the work with a twofold 
object: (a) To avoid the necessity of giving full references repeatedly in 
the parts that follow, wherein the subject-matter to which the biblio¬ 
graphy relates will come under exhaustive review. ( b) To supply the 
want of a growing number of investigators who have been compelled 
in the course of the war to give these repulsive insects the attention 
they deserve. The lack of knowledge of the literature on lice shown 
by most recent writers has, in several instances, led to remarkable 
blunders which would have been avoided if the authors had been familiar 
with the work accomplished by their predecessors. 
Every effort has been made to consult the original publications, but, 
owing to the war, there has been much difficulty, especially in obtaining 
access to some foreign papers of recent date. The bulk of the papers 
cited in the bibliography has been published since the war began. In 
some cases only an abstract or quotations have been available, in others 
the papers have remained inaccessible, and of necessity, they are cited 
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