Organophosphates, a very strong pesticide was generously used to
delouse Iraqi POWs treated at our hospital and it was liberally sprayed on tents to keep the pests, sand fleas and other creepy crawlies out.
Throw him in the bath and try to
delouse the wee man.
"The men," the author helpfully adds, "
delouse their hair by caking it with mud which they remove, when dry, with an inner crust of lice"
The lice were collected at the Moscow Municipal Disinfection Center, where the homeless wash and
delouse themselves, as well as disinfect or change their clothes.
As an adolescent I was an internment assistant; I helped house and
delouse refugees, including Italian partisans.
I had to provide my own car for the job but I remember how often I had to disinfest it myself because of service-users I had to ferry to a safe place; the number of times I had to take people to a health centre to be deloused and provide them with fresh clothing when their own had to be burnt; the number of times I had to
delouse, de-flea myself and treat myself for scabies.
23rd: Now that fall is here, worm, wash,
delouse, shave, trim hooves and clip around udders of your goats all at the same time (well, at least in sequence).
When the first Neanderthal headed off to Kwik-Cave for the nuts, berries and woolly mammoth chops, the other stayed home to
delouse their hairy offspring.