• Rats, Lice and History is a 1935 book written by biologist Hans Zinsser on the subject of typhus, a disease on which he performed significant research...
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    Louse (redirect from Lice)
    [1935]. Rats, Lice and History. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 978-1-4128-0672-5. Altschuler DZ (1990). "Zinsser, Lice and History". HeadLice.org. Retrieved...
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    Charles; First Edition. ISBN 978-0715367827 Zinsser, H. (1935). Rats, Lice and History. Blue Ribbon Books, Inc. ISBN 978-1412806725 Leung, LKP; Peter G...
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    Hans Zinsser (category Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons alumni)
    typhus bacterium and developed a protective vaccine. He wrote several books about biology and bacteria, notably Rats, Lice and History (1935), a "biography"...
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    Moth (section History)
    monophyletic: Microlepidoptera and Macrolepidoptera, Heterocera and Rhopalocera, Jugatae and Frenatae, Monotrysia, and Ditrysia. Although the rules for...
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    Riis, the effects of typhus fever and smallpox on "Jewtown" are described. (1935) Hans Zinsser's Rats, Lice and History, although a touch outdated on the...
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    Flea circus (section History)
    orchestra (allegedly playing audibly), and a reenactment of Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo".: 315  Bertolotto's book The History of the Flea (c. 1833) also promoted...
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  • Volume 1 about prehistory, and Volume 4 draws from "part of the Old Testament". He reads from Hans Zinsser's Rats, Lice and History before Volume 19 about...
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    Typhus (section History)
    Flea-Borne Typhus". CBS Los Angeles. 4 October 2018. Zinsser H (1960). Rats, Lice and History. Bantam Classic. p. 186. Smith RD (January 1967). "Criminal Law—Arrest—The...
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    time. Rats were carriers of lice. Lice can also transmit disease and played a role in spreading trench fever amongst the soldiers. Trench rats also gnawed...
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    Students 4th Edition Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-70928-6 Zinsser, H. 1934. Rats, Lice and History. Little, Brown, and Co., New York, NY....
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    Rat-baiting (section History)
    History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants. Chapter 9 Bloomsbury USA. ISBN 1-58234-385-3 Zinsser, H. (1935). Rats, Lice and History....
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    Society, Vol. 119 (1999), pp. 71–79 Zinsser, Hans. Rats, Lice and History: A Chronicle of Disease, Plagues, and Pestilence (1935). Reprinted by Black Dog & Leventhal...
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    rufovillosum" (PDF). Natural History Museum. Retrieved 15 October 2019. Robinson, William H. (2005). Urban Insects and Arachnids A Handbook of Urban...
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    Apitherapy (section History)
    Mumcuoglu, Kosta (eds.). Biotherapy – History, principles and practice: A practical guide to the diagnosis and treatment of disease using living organisms...
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    Plague of Athens (category History of Classical Athens)
    Press, 2002. ISBN 0-19-513067-7. Zinsser, Hans. Rats, Lice and History: A Chronicle of Pestilence and Plagues. Boston,1935; New York: Black Dog & Leventhal...
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  • celebrated bacteriologist at Columbia and Harvard who became best known for authoring the best-selling book Rats, Lice and History in 1935. Zinsser completed a...
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  • and medical articles, perhaps best remembered for his 1935 book, Rats, Lice and History. Kōbō Abe (1924–1993) Japanese author known for his surrealistic...
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    (1852) and Henry Walter Bates (1862). Hans Zinsser's classic Rats, Lice and History (1935) showed that insects were an important force in human history. Writers...
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  • bacteriologist Hans Zinsser publishes Rats, lice and history: being a study in biography, which... deals with the life history of typhus fever. Cornish Engines...
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  • textbooks is not plausible. Zinsser, Hans; Gerald N. Grob (2007). Rats, Lice, and History. Transaction Publishers. p. xxvii. ISBN 978-1-4128-0672-5. ".....
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    Brown rat (redirect from Brown Rats)
    Magnussen, Eyðfinn (2015). "Occurrence of fleas (Siphonaptera) and lice (Phthiraptera) on Brown rats (Rattus norvegicus) on the Faroe Islands" (PDF). Norwegian...
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    House mice Possums Brushtail possum Ringtail possum Rats Black rats Brown rats Wood rats Cotton rats Ants Argentine ants Carpenter ants Fire ants Odorous...
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    joint study by Columbia University and Cornell University found that the rats are commonly infested with fleas, lice, and mites that carry bacteria that can...
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  • once referred to the 180,000 Palestinians working in Israel as a cancer, "lice" Israel must rid itself of. In August 2000, Ehud Barak likened Palestinians...
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  • Molly Guptill Manning's book When Books Went To War (2014), a history of the ASEs and related efforts to promote wartime reading in the United States...
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  • Hoplopleura hirsuta (category Lice)
    peruanus, and Sigmodon arizonae. Durden and Musser, 1994, p. 27 Durden, L.A. and Musser, G.G. 1994. The sucking lice (Insecta, Anoplura) of the world: a taxonomic...
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    Permethrin (section History)
    Permethrin is a medication and an insecticide. As a medication, it is used to treat scabies and lice. It is applied to the skin as a cream or lotion....
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    Parasitism (section History)
    sickness, and amoebic dysentery; animals such as hookworms, lice, mosquitoes, and vampire bats; fungi such as honey fungus and the agents of ringworm; and plants...
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    shampoo used to combat head lice until infestation is eliminated. Carbaryl kills both targeted (e.g., malaria-carrying mosquitos) and beneficial insects (e...
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