Investigations on Typhus
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 1999-06-01
- Publisher
- World Scientific Publishing Company Incorporated
- Place
- Physiology Or Medicine, 1922-1941
- Retrieved
- Jun 11, 2012
- ISBN
- Q7IjPkFIoz
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The Louse is Punishment for Regression
And this is the ultimate lesson that our knowledge of the mode of transmission of typhus has taught us: Man carries on his skin a parasite, the louse. Civilization rids him of it. Should man regress, should he allow himself to resemble a primitive beast, the louse begins to multiply again and treats man as he…