Earthworm, Lumbricus terrestris 1, medicinal leech, Hirudo medicinalis 2, polype species, Hydra vulgaris, 3,4,5,6, pork tapeworm, Taenia solium 7, and unknown species of tapeworm, Hydratis gigas 8. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Johann Christian Wilhelm Waitz from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1792.

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