What these intervention methods show is a collaboration between men presented with no other viable options. For the soldiers in the trenches, the necessity of exterminating their vermin often outweighed the constant danger that surrounded them on a daily basis. Lice were clearly one of the worst problems the men faced in the trenches — both for their health and for their personal comfort. The intervention methods they practiced were so far removed from those purported by medical professionals, showing that a new ‘system of ideas’ spread by soldiers relied on the conditions that surrounded them, and the materials they had access to in the trenches. FLESH THIS OUT AND PUT STUFF IN ABOUT FAILURE OF PROFESSIONAL INTERVENTIONS ETC.
