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Excerpt from Lice and Their Menace to Man This book is intended for the general reader rather than for the specialist, and its chief purpose is to introduce the main facts concerning the lice of man which have been brought to light in the last few years. It is somewhat amazing that, though the louse lives in a closer association with man than any other insect does, it should still be the subject of so much erroneous information. Even those who should have been best informed knew little of its detailed habits, when the hardships of war made it so necessary that means should be devised for combating it. To-day we are in a much better position to deal with it than we were four years ago, and this is owing to the closer attention which scientists have bestowed upon it, often at great personal discomfort. In this country its habits have been especially studied by Professor G. H. F. Nuttall, of Cambridge, and Mr. A. Bacot, of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, while in France Captain A. D. Peacock, R. A. M. C., gave us much exact information of its mode of spread among troops in the field. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.