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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 deserves, as a brute beast.
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Error is all around us and creeps in at the least opportunity. Every method is imperfect.
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Charles Nicolle
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Born:
September 21, 1866
Died:
February 28, 1936
(aged 69)
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Charles Jules Henry Nicolle was a French bacteriologist who received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his identification of lice as the transmitter of epidemic typhus.
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