 | William Withering - Botany - 1801 - 476 pages
...flat insect called a fluke (Fasio.'a bepatica) which is found in these wet situations adhering to the stones and plants, and likewise in the livers and biliary ducts of sheep that are alteuted with the rot. — From experiment's made on purpose, and conducted with accuracy,... | |
 | Chemistry - 1804 - 620 pages
...flat insect, called a fluhe (fasciola hepatica) which is found in these wet situations adhering to the stones and plants, and likewise in the livers and biliary ducts of sheep afflicted with the rot. From experiments made on purpose, and conducted with accuracy, it appears,... | |
 | George Woods - Isle of Man - 1811 - 396 pages
...to the eating of the hydrocotyle vulgaris, marsh pennywort. Its leaf is said to corrode the liver; and, on opening a sheep that has died of the disease,...vegetable shape. Dr. Withering attributes .the rot in slice p to a flat insect, the fasciola hepatica, fluke* * Hollinshed's Chronicles, Vol. I. p. 38'.... | |
 | Books - 1811 - 576 pages
...hydrocotyle vulgark, marsh pennywort. Its leaf is said to corrode the tver; and, on opening a sheep that lias died of the disease, to be found attached thereto,...motion, but retaining its primitive vegetable shape.' — * The country is sufficiently populous for the extent of cultivated ground ; but, the herring-fishery... | |
 | John Feltham - Isle of Man - 1861 - 322 pages
...insect called a JlaJie (fasciola hepatica), which is found in these wet situations, adhering to the stones and plants, and likewise in the livers and biliary ducts of sheep that are affected with the Rot." I am obliged to my friend Mr. Wray, jun. of Salisbury, for the communication... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Science - 1912 - 754 pages
...flat insect called a fluke (Fasciola hepatica), which is found in these wet situations adhering to the stones and plants, and likewise in the livers and biliary ducts of sheep that are affected with the rot. From experiments conducted with accuracy, it appears that neither sheep,... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Science - 1912 - 778 pages
...flat insect qalled a fluke (Fasciola hepatica), which is found in these wet situations adhering to the stones and plants, and likewise in the livers and biliary ducts of sheep that are affected with the rot. From experiments conducted with accuracy, it appears that neither sheep,... | |
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But it may be questionable whether the rot in sheep is so much owing to the vegetables in marshy grounds, as to a flat insect called a fluke (Fasciola hepatica), which is found in these wet situations adhering to the stones and plants, and likewise in... 