2007-05-24 16:26:58 · 5 answers · asked by Kale 2 in Health ➔ Other - Health
the chinese?
they were eating 'flied lice' centuries ago...
2007-05-24 16:28:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Head lice infestations have been a problem a long time - Pliny, a Greek naturalist (23-79 AD) suggested bathing in viper broth. Montezuma paid people to pick nits off his subjects, dried them and then saved them in his treasury. W. Coles in his 1657 book Adam in Eden: or Nature's Paradise noted that the oil from hyssop (Hyssopus) "killeth lice." Nicholas Culpeper in his 1681 The English Physician Enlarged recommended tobacco juice to kill lice on children's heads, a very early reference to the use of tobacco as an insecticide poison. Medical historians trace head lice infestations back 9,000 years!
This site gives info on different types of lice, the diseases they spread and some ways to cure them.
2007-05-28 22:54:01 · answer #2 · answered by dizzkat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it was the French, one of the King Louis. The British discovered Earwigs. This I am pretty sure.
2007-05-24 23:29:59 · answer #3 · answered by whrldpz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the school nurse
2007-05-24 23:35:25 · answer #4 · answered by maltrey 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THE JEWS
2007-05-24 23:34:36 · answer #5 · answered by anguiano_3 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋