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Romans Faced Head-To-Head Battle (Lice)
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| 3-31-2004
Posted on 03/30/2004 6:34:09 PM PST by blam
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posted on
03/30/2004 6:34:10 PM PST
by
blam
To: blam
Good night, sleep tight...
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posted on
03/30/2004 6:43:52 PM PST
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: blam
Archaeologists say the louse is around 2,000 years old.A Kerry ancestor?
Bill relates, "That's a good-lookin' louse; I could have gotten with that!"
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posted on
03/30/2004 6:45:42 PM PST
by
dasboot
To: blam
She said: "The louse is one of the largest and most complete ever found in the Roman world." Wasn't France part of the Roman world? They have some big ones there to this day.
To: blam
I wonder if this could be related to the Roman obsession with hair removal. I know that hair was removed for cosmetic reasons, but prevention of louse infestation could have been its original basis.
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posted on
03/30/2004 6:50:58 PM PST
by
Savage Beast
(Was it "Love Story" that was written about John Kerry? Or was it "Washington Square"?)
To: Savage Beast
"I wonder if this could be related to the Roman obsession with hair removal." I didn't know that, Good observation...and connections.(James Burke)
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posted on
03/30/2004 7:06:14 PM PST
by
blam
To: blam
The Kelts used to cake lime in their hair to combat lice, I've read.
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posted on
03/30/2004 7:19:28 PM PST
by
dasboot
To: dasboot
"The Kelts used to cake lime in their hair to combat lice, I've read." ..and, pubic hair, hee, hee?
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posted on
03/30/2004 7:29:14 PM PST
by
blam
To: blam
I would have never guessed that Roman soldiers had ANYTHING in common with anti-war protesters, but live and learn.
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posted on
03/30/2004 7:30:35 PM PST
by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
To: blam
klack......klack......klack....klack..klack.klack klackklackkclackllackKLACKLACKLACKLACKLACK.......
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posted on
03/30/2004 7:35:37 PM PST
by
dasboot
To: blam
.... lousy Romans.
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posted on
03/30/2004 7:53:55 PM PST
by
GMMAC
(lots of terror cells in Canada - I'll be waving my US flag when the Marines arrive!)
To: blam
As many parents now realize, this is truly a horrific thing, these lice.
As you know, blam, anthropo-bio-cauldo-entero-galaxospherical type dude you are: bugs develop immunities to human-developed toxins real quick.
Study was done at HARVARD about 10 years ago showing human head lice here in the US were no longer killed by our Pronto, Rid, etc. They'd developed immunity.
Lice can't be gotten rid of short of a GD turban, anymore, once it sets into a elementary school group.
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posted on
03/30/2004 8:02:57 PM PST
by
txhurl
To: blam
O wad some Power the giftie gie us |
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To see oursels as ithers see us! |
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An foolish notion: |
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What airs in dress an gait wad leae us, |
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An evn devotion! |
To: txflake
"Study was done at HARVARD about 10 years ago showing human head lice here in the US were no longer killed by our Pronto, Rid, etc. They'd developed immunity. " Thanks, didn't know that.
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posted on
03/30/2004 8:12:05 PM PST
by
blam
To: txflake
Study was done at HARVARD about 10 years ago showing human head lice here in the US were no longer killed by our Pronto, Rid, etc. They'd developed immunity. Well, gee, I didn't need Harvard to tell me that (two kids through elementary school) I hear toothpaste does a pretty good job - is flouride a pesticide?
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posted on
03/30/2004 8:12:30 PM PST
by
momfirst
To: momfirst
Toothpaste works? Not a problem for us anymore, but I'd sure like to pass the info on if it does????
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posted on
03/30/2004 8:34:52 PM PST
by
txhurl
To: momfirst
I hear toothpaste does a pretty good job - is flouride a pesticide?
Prolly works on the same basis as lime: no access to follicle on which to lay eggs, and no access to skin from which to suck blood. Minty fresh, too!
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posted on
03/30/2004 8:39:15 PM PST
by
dasboot
To: blam
Here ja
go.
Sparring Over Head Lice
Premature release of study results embroils NPA, Harvard School of Public Health and Warner-Lambert in a three-way dispute.
The battleground over head lice has spread beyond the heads of American children. While parents await a cure-all to counteract harmless pests, a controversy over whether resistance is developing to a widely used chemical - and how such information should be disseminated - is coming to a head.
The dispute began when the National Pediculosis Association (NPA), a not-for-profit health education agency, released information suggesting that a study it had funded concluded that head lice in two test markets had developed resistance to permethrin, the active ingredient in Nix cream rinse, marketed by Warner-Lambert, Morris Plains, NJ.
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posted on
03/30/2004 8:46:47 PM PST
by
txhurl
To: dasboot
Lime? Like powdered?
Forgive me. My daughter has beautiful long blonde hair that was constantly 'brushed' thru elementary school friends and our battles with those bugs 'bout drove me nuts. Really.
I'd love to know what really works.
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posted on
03/30/2004 8:53:22 PM PST
by
txhurl
(Also I want the lice shampoo companies sued for FDA reasons.)
To: txflake
Toothpaste was the only thing that worked for my mom on my brother, so she says. Cake a tube or two on the head, work it in real good and rinse after it crusts for a while. IMO, A good buzz cut will work better than any chemical on a boy - girls are the hard ones.
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posted on
03/30/2004 8:53:36 PM PST
by
momfirst
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