On balance, I think I was flattered when given a book to review featuring head lice. I was caught short for appropriate slides the other day when asked to teach the senior house officers (SHO) something about paediatric dermatology, so I decided to produce home made examples of warts, atopic eczema, and, you guessed, pediculosis capitis. The Editor was subsequently fed accounts of a mad general practitioner casually demonstrating the …