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THE life-history of the liver fluke (Fasciola hepatica) was described by A. P. Thomasin Q.J.M.S., Lond., vol. 23, N.S., 1883. He succeeded in rearing experimentally the early stages of the complicated life-history of this parasite by collecting eggs from the gall bladder of sheep, bringing about their hatching under suitable conditions, and infecting the molluscan host, Limnæus truncatulus, from which he obtained both rediæ and cercariæ, using the latter for the infection of young lambs. His methods, however, are not suitable for class demonstration owing to the difficulty nowadays of getting the eggs of the fluke from heavily infected sheep.
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EALES, N. A Method of obtaining Stages in the Life-history of the Liver Fluke for Class Purposes. Nature 125, 779 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/125779a0
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