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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.
  • 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.
  • Horse intestine with multiple attached parasitic worms
  • Benzimidazole crystals
  • Parasites: a parasitical worm, shown much enlarged, with its hosts. Gouache painting by J. Svoboda after L.W. Sambon.
  • Clove tree (Syzygium aromaticum): flowering and fruiting stem with cloves and parasitic worm. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1808, after J. Ihle.
  • Benzimidazole crystals
  • Parasites: a parasitical worm, shown much enlarged, with its hosts. Gouache painting by J. Svoboda after L.W. Sambon.
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  • view Parasites: a parasitical worm, shown much enlarged, with its hosts. Gouache painting by J. Svoboda after L.W. Sambon.
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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
  • view Threadworms (Enterobius vermicularis) in the villi of the gut
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    Threadworms (Enterobius vermicularis) in the villi of the gut

    Annie Cavanagh
  • view 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.
    • Pictures
    • Online

    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
  • view Benzimidazole crystals
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    Benzimidazole crystals

    Gwyneth Thurgood
  • view Parasites: a parasitical worm, shown much enlarged, with its hosts. Gouache painting by J. Svoboda after L.W. Sambon.
    • Pictures
    • Online

    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: 46548i
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