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Worms

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  • Two maggots. Etching.
  • Parasites: a parasitical worm, shown much enlarged, with its hosts. Gouache painting by J. Svoboda after L.W. Sambon.
  • Adult worms of toxocara cati (from a cat).
  • 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 monograph of the British marine annelids / by William Carmichael McIntosh.
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    Parasites: a parasitical worm, shown much enlarged, with its hosts. Gouache painting by J. Svoboda after L.W. Sambon.

    Sambon, L. W. (Louis Westenra), 1865-1931. | Reference: 46546i
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    Egg of toxocara canis (unsegmented)

    Royal Veterinary College
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    Threadworms (Enterobius vermicularis) in the villi of the gut

    Annie Cavanagh
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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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    Benzimidazole crystals

    Gwyneth Thurgood
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