The discovery that a disorder known as the staggers, of which many thousands of sheep have died annually, is caused by an entozoon which presses on the brain, and that if the creature is extracted through the softened place in the skull which marks its position, the sheep usually recovers, is another debt which agriculture owes to biology.

Can I untouch'd the Fair ones Paſſions move? / Or Thou draw Beauty, and not feel it's Pow'r?

Briefly, dsNlRan (stock solution estimated at 4.000 mg/mL), dsGFP (estimated at 4.000 mg/mL, negative control), or double distilled water (blank control) was injected into the thorax between the mesocoxa and the hind coxa of third-instar nymphs (2-day old), fourth-instar nymphs (2-day old) or fifth-instar nymphs (3-day old) in volumes of 0.025 μL, 0.05 μL and 0.1 μL, respectively, with different doses.

The police and troops captured eleven thousand stand of arms, including muskets and pistols, together with several thousand bludgeons and other weapons.