These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: [The eagle and the louse: typhus in the Grand Army].
    Author: Ducoulombier H.
    Journal: Hist Sci Med; 2014; 48(3):351-60. PubMed ID: 25966536.
    Abstract:
    How is it that lice, such a common parasite, have shaken the Napoleonic empire? This paper, based on medical literature and on proven facts, is going to tell the history of such a "war pestilence", a "contagious typhus".
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]