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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.
  • A lung worm of python (Porocephalus moniliformis). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.
  • A male patient is hanging by his feet from an apparatus, a large worm (?) is passing from his mouth into a bowl, assisted by a surgeon and two assistants. Process print after a woodcut, 1497.
  • Parasites: a parasitical worm, shown much enlarged, with its hosts. Gouache painting by J. Svoboda after L.W. Sambon.
  • Parasites: a parasitical worm, shown much enlarged, with its hosts. Gouache painting by J. Svoboda after L.W. Sambon.
  • Slow-worm (blind-worm or deaf-adder) anguis fragilis family: Anguidae : DF 118 powerful non-narcotic analgesic.
  • Slow-worm (blind-worm or deaf-adder) anguis fragilis family: Anguidae : DF 118 powerful non-narcotic analgesic.
  • Parasites: a parasitical worm, shown much enlarged, with its hosts. Gouache painting by J. Svoboda after L.W. Sambon.
  • Parasites: a parasitical worm, shown much enlarged, with its hosts. Gouache painting by J. Svoboda after L.W. Sambon.
  • A bael tree (Aegle marmelos) with sectioned fruit, a dancefly (Empis livida) and three worms (Enchelis species). Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1804, after J. Ihle.
  • Threadworms (Enterobius vermicularis) in the villi of the gut
  • Several species of parasitic flat-worm. Coloured etching, ca. 1795.
  • A parasitic worm (Filaria species) and its vector beetle (Tenebrio molitor). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.
  • Species of molluscs: gelatinous worms, jellyfish, medusas, etc. Coloured etching by J. Chapman, 1808.
  • A nematode worm. Coloured etching, ca. 1792.
  • A worm found in the left ventricle
  • Threadworms (Enterobius vermicularis) in the villi of the gut
  • A parasitic flat-worm. Coloured etching.
  • Parasites: a parasitical worm, shown much enlarged, with its hosts. Gouache painting by J. Svoboda after L.W. Sambon.
  • Crystals of benzimidazole. Benzimidazole is used as a fungicide in agriculture and to treat worms in human and veterinary medicine.