Paper, 'Lumbricus hydropicus or an essay to prove that hydatides often mett with in morbid animal bodys are a species of wormes or imperfect animals' by Edward Tyson
Reference number: CLP/12i/31
Date: 1687
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Paper discussing hydatids, or sacs of larval Echinococcus granulosus tapeworm, found in the corpse of a gazelle and in that of a woman. Includes original figures.
Subject: Anatomy / Entomology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Lumbricus hydropicus; or An essay to prove that hydatides often met with in morbid animal bodies, are a species of worms, or imperfect animals. By that learned and curious Anatomist Edward Tyson, M. D. and R. Soc. S'.
Read to the Royal Society on 22 February 1687.
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Edward Tyson, Paper, 'Lumbricus hydropicus or an essay to prove that hydatides often mett with in morbid animal bodys are a species of wormes or imperfect animals' by Edward Tyson, 1687, CLP/12i/31, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_12i_31/paper-lumbricus-hydropicus-or-an-essay-to-prove-that-hydatides-often-mett-with-in-morbid-animal-bodys-are-a-species-of-wormes-or-imperfect-animals-by-edward-tyson, accessed on 20 June 2025
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Author: Edward Tyson
Date: 1st September 1691
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1686.0094
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