Things that crawl inside you

Sun Jul 5 12:46:09 UTC 2009

At 7/5/2009 12:39 AM, Mark Mandel wrote:
>Then there are rat lice, sucking lice, chewing lice, and other things
>that are called lice but aren't (to the zoologist) lice at all.
>
>'Nuff said. Pleasant dreams.

I can recommend "Life on Man", by Theodor Rosebury (Viking,
1969).  The population each human supports is astounding.

Joel

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