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Helminths

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  • A surgeon extracting a guinea worm from a man's leg, in the background is a similar scene after a successful operation, a surgeon is holding a long worm. Photograph of a halftone after an engraving by J. Luyken.
  • A father assists a boy who washes his hands from a container of water hanging from a branch: preventing illness in children in Uganda. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, 2002.
  • A long parasitical worm (tapeworm) is extracted from an emaciated man. Coloured lithograph by Langlumé, 1823.
  • A father assists a boy who washes his hands from a container of water hanging from a branch: preventing illness in children in Uganda. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, 2002.
  • St Pancras Wells, King's Cross, London: aerial view showing the "Plantation", and St Pancras church in the background, with an advertisement and explanation. Engraving.
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    Traité des entozoaires et des maladies vermineuses de l'homme et des animaux domestiques.

    Davaine, Casimir-Joseph, 1812-1882. | Date: 1860
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    St Pancras Wells, King's Cross, London: aerial view showing the "Plantation", and St Pancras church in the background, with an advertisement and explanation. Engraving.

    | Reference: 38748i
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    A surgeon extracting a guinea worm from a man's leg, in the background is a similar scene after a successful operation, a surgeon is holding a long worm. Photograph of a halftone after an engraving by J. Luyken.

    Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712. | Reference: 22554i
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    On human entozoa : comprising the description of the different species of worms found in the intestines and other parts of the human body, and the pathology and treatment of the various affections produced by their presence : to which is added a glossary of the principal terms employed / by Wm. Abbotts Smith.

    | Date: 1863
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    Human cestoides : an essay on the tapeworms of man : giving a full account of their nature, organization, and embryonic development, the pathological symptoms they produce, and the remedies which have proved successful in modern practice / by D.F. Weinland ; to which is added an appendix, containing a catalogue of all species of Helminthes hitherto found in man.

    Weinland, D. F. (David Friedrich), 1829-1915. | Date: 1858
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