Lice.—The body louse has been found to be a carrier of typhus fever. It carries the germ in its body after biting a sufferer from the disease and by biting a person can inject the germ into his blood. Lice belong to the insect family. The species which infest human beings are about 1-10 of an inch in length and are found on the covered regions of the body and clothing.

A difficult and stigmatized task, removing head lice is a honerous task, about as difficult as upgrading a video card on a laptop.

Lice always grow from the eggs laid by an adult louse and never originate from filth or other matter. They hatch out within a week and the young are capable of reproduction in less than two weeks. A single adult female will produce 5,000 lice within eight weeks. The annoyance of these pests biting a human being will cause, if sufficiently prolonged, a nervous irritation, and a condition of ill health follows. There are three types of lice which infest man. The Head Lice (Pediculus Capitis), the Body Lice (Pediculus Vestimentorum) and Crab Lice (Pediculus Inguinalis).

Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:

• The Head Lice – Treatment
  
  

  The Head Lice.—They are grayish in color with blackish margins and show a reddish tinge due to the blood they have sucked from their victim. The eggs or nits are seen attached to the hair shafts on the scalp at some distance from the end of the hair and are tiny white or grayish pear-shaped bodies seen upon close examination.

  The treatment today, 100 years after this treatment was written in the Book of Medicine, things are not a great deal easier.  Its not like a person can even brush their hair with some sort of device that would zap head lice like air can be purified with an IQAir filter.

  TREATMENT.-It is necessary to remove eggs and adults at the same time, so wet the hair thoroughly with crude petroleum (from any drug store) keep hair wet for three hours, then wash whole head with warm water and soap. Repeat this wash once a day for three successive days. The eggs can then be removed by combing the hair with a fine tooth comb wet with vinegar. Where possible the treatment can be made more thorough and permanent if the hair is cut short.

• Body Sculpture Turns to Lipo Sculpture
  
  

  There was a time when people carved the human figure and marble or would grieve and dipped it in a precious metal like gold or bronze.  Michelangelo’s David might even be considered an example of man’s attempt to sculpt the perfect person.

  That was hundreds of years ago and today we are reaching a point where we can literally sculpt the perfect person while they are alive.  I’m not talking about anything macabre, I’m talking about the science of plastic surgery.

  Today people have the option of going to a surgeon to have imperfections in the body corrected.  They can seek los angeles cosmetic surgery experts to help them correct or crooked nose or improve a smile or he raise harder and wrinkles and provide a net or talk or boost.

  With the invention of the technique known as liposuction, and all of the advances that are made in this technique year after year and month after month, people can now scope their body to fit the mold and model in their minds eye.  People travel from many different places to have their figure or their body re-formed by the hands of a beverly hills liposculpture Doctor.

  Within a short amount of time in a short amount of recovery they can go back out of the world literally a new person.

  This type of concept would have been completely foreign to people hundred years ago.  Surgery in general was extremely risky a hundred years ago, and it would have been completely impractical and even dangerous back then to consider cosmetic surgery.  It’s amazing what a hundred years can do for this particular science.  Surgery is still very serious and dangerous, but science and medicine have improved so drastically that the mortality rate for general surgery is nowhere near what it used to be and now doctors can even perform smaller surgeries with techniques that are becoming less and less invasive every single year.

• Machinery of Digestion
  
  

  Machinery of Digestion.-From the number and differently formed structures which constitute the digestive organs, it will be observed that the function is a very highly complex process.  If the food were thrown directly into the circulating fluid, it could not be used for the purpose of nutrition.  It requires for its transformation into blood, bone and muscle, a series of complex machinery, each part of which is specially designed for the particular part it plays in this wonderful and complicated process.

   

  Use of Mouth and Teeth.- the mechanical part, which, although not shown in this chart, may be carefully studied in the chart giving the different views of the head, is performed by the mouth and teeth, and pulverized food is subject to the action of the saliva.  The lubricated morsel of food is now gathered into a ball and conveyed to the back of the mouth by the muscles of the cheek and tongue.  On its arrival here, the soft palate lifts upward and closes the posterior nasal openings; the epiglottis shuts down over the trachea or windpipe, forming a bridge over which the food passes, thus preventing it from falling into the respiratory tract.

   

  For this section I don’t really know to anything extraordinary, and I’m just going to move on to the next sections from here as we do have some interesting segments coming up shortly.