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A Nematode Formula, Nathan Augustus Cobb

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty Publications

I hope by the aid of this new formula to be able to describe, even without the aid of figures, at least such species as belong to already well known genera, so accurately as to leave little to be desired, and yet so briefly as to leave space for the full discussion of the important relations existing between these worms and diseases of plants.

The Life History Of The Liver-Fluke (Fasciola Hepatica), A. P. Thomas

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Library Materials

IT has been known from very early times that the liver-rot of various herbivorous mammals is a parasitic disease due to the presence of very numerous flukes in the liver of the affected animals. Amongst our domesticated animals the sheep is by far the most frequent victim. The fluke disease is always common in certain districts in England and in many parts of the world; but in consequence of a succession of wet seasons there was a serious outbreak of it in the winter 1879-1880, and it is estimated that in the United Kingdom 3,000,000 sheep were then destroyed by …

Versuch Einer Naturgeschichte Der Eingeweidewūrmer Thierischer Körper, Johann August Ephraim Goeze

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Library Materials

Original version of Versuch einer Naturgeschichte der Eingeweidewūrmer thierischer Körper [= Attempt at a natural history of the intestinal worms of animal bodies] by Johann August Ephraim Goeze, published by P. Pape in Leipzig in 1787, about tapeworms, also known as cestodes (Class Cestoda).

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