Unfortunately, its usefulness as a means of keeping the roach in check by destroying the egg capsules is greatly impaired by the occurrence of another ichneumon fly (Entedon hagenowi), which is parasitic upon the first.
Edmunds (1957) reported that cannibalism was common in a laboratory colony of Periplaneta brunnea and that egg capsules deposited by a female were often eaten by the other cockroaches.
These capsulesor pods were nearly a foot in length, though not much thicker than a swan's quill.
Instead of flowers, long bean-like capsules made their appearance.
Kennedy removed the transmitters of the telephones, and taking the carbon capsules from them placed the capsules on the table carefully.
Pressing the transmitter fronts with the carbon capsules against the paper and the glass on the picture he mounted them so that the paper and glass acted as a large diaphragm to collect all the sounds in the room.
When doubts and cares distress the mind And daily duties bore us, At fifty cents per box we find The Pink Capsules restore us.
If this is going to have anything about the Codliver Capsules in it, don't you think the title is just a little suggestive?
We sell of the Codliver Capsules Full four million boxes a year, Which, at fifty cents each, gives a total Of two million dollars, my dear.
And the rest of the Codliver Capsules Belong to your servant, my sweet, And these, with my love and devotion, I hasten to lay at your feet.
If, however, a larger amount be considered necessary, there is no reason why three or more capsules should not be given.
Two capsules therefore represent two hundred grains of pure bile, a quantity (though less, perhaps, than the healthy organism consumes during each digestion) which in most cases would be sufficient for the wants of the system.
Whereas, in the same specimen of gastric juice, the capsules prepared for me by Savory and Moore, although swollen to more than three times their original size, were nevertheless intact at the end of an hour and a half.
The capsules not only preserve the active properties of the bile for an almost indefinite period, but they have the advantage of most effectually preventing the patient tasting the remedy.
Footnote 31: The capsules were made by Savory and Moore, and I have every reason to be satisfied with the manner in which they accomplished the object in view.
The poor fellow was called ‘the swell pill taker,’ and what was more likely than that, with the fascination of the new capsules before him, he should have taken a pill for the heartburn from which he was suffering.
As to the two boxes of capsules, he continued:— “The prosecution suggested that these two boxes of capsules were brought by the prisoner, but they did not suggest there was poison in any of them.
These capsulesin the bottle were some of the 107 capsules.
Capsules produced by Witness, and shown to Judge and Jury, to show how little space in the capsule was occupied even by the grain of aconitia.
He produced two boxes of capsules from his bag, and said, ‘I should like you to try one to see how easily they can be swallowed.
It contained a box—(this is the box)—with capsules in it.
It is believed that as John was suffering from indigestion (he had dined at one, and portions of his dinner were vomited undigested at nine) he determined to take a pill, and try with it one of the capsules just given him.
In the box with the capsules were some little pills, and in the boy’s own box in his bedroom a small box of quinine powders, and another with two pills wrapped in tinfoil.
In the boy’s box, on the ground floor, five pills mixed with capsules were found.
There were four pills loose, one large comfit from a Dundee cake, and one of the capsules contained what appeared to be a pill, but which was really a similar comfit.
When it is desired to dilate the peripheral vessels suddenly, one or two of these capsules are broken in a cloth held to the nose.
Microscopically the capsules of the glomeruli are a trifle thickened; a few show hyaline changes.
It is well known what a difference there is in the buoyancy of green and seasoned timber; and it occurred to me that floods would often wash into the sea dried plants or branches with seed-capsules or fruit attached to them.
For convenience sake I chiefly tried small seeds without the capsules or fruit; and as all of these sank in a few days, they could not have been floated across wide spaces of the sea, whether or not they were injured by salt water.
The spores are generally formed in special spore-capsules (sporangia).
The moss-capsules also empty their spores as a result of imbibition-curving (in the teeth of the openings of the spore-cases).
The capsulesof Rue, Spurge, and some others, are both loculicidal and septicidal, and so split into half-carpellary valves or pieces.
Small loose fruits, seeds, detached flowers, and the like may be conveniently preserved in paper capsules or envelopes, attached to the herbarium-sheets.
Opium is obtained from the capsules or heads of seed, and is extracted after they are fully formed, but while yet green.
The seeds ripen in August: and the heads, or umbels, should be cut off when they assume a brown color; for then the capsules begin to open, and shed their seeds.
The period of reaping is about the month of August, when the earliest and generally the largest capsules begin to open.
Opium is obtained from incisions made in thecapsules of the plant, and the best flows from the first incision.
Closed by a lid or cover, as the capsules of the mosses.
So called in allusion to the shape of the seed capsules of the poppy.
It is time to take one of these capsules now," she said, gently moving to his side and offering it to him.
In the mean time, nurse, you will see that he takes these capsules every two hours--he had the last at half-past five.
Should it be windy, let the capsules be covered with a suitable vessel until they have taken their position north and south.
Let these capsules be so joined together that they cannot be separated and that water cannot enter; they should be made of light wood and fastened with cement suited to the purpose.
The lodestone prepared in this wise is then enclosed within two capsulesafter the fashion of a mirror.
Then float the capsules and place a smooth strip of wood over them in the manner of a diameter.
If, therefore, you desire to take the azimuth of the sun, place the capsules in water and let them move freely until they come to rest in their natural position.
Then mark a line on the capsules according to the position of the strip, and this will indicate forever the meridian of that place.
On the top or edge of the capsules thus marked place a thin ruler like the pointer on the back of the astrolabe; instead of the sights attach two perpendicular pins, one at each end.
When the leaves and capsules of either of them are rubbed, they have a very strong smell of anise;--they grow very freely.
When it is required to know if lead contains any mixture of gold or silver, it is heated in a strong fire in capsules of calcined bones, which are called cuppels.
They were scoring the poppy capsules with vertical scratches and scraping off the exuded juice which had bled from the incisions they made yesterday.
Boys were shouting to frighten away the sparrows from the newly-sown rice beds; while women were moving on their little feet among the poppies, scoring anew the capsules and gathering the juice that had exuded since yesterday.
The bladder-like seed-capsules are striking in the autumn.
Diplococci without capsules are common in the sputum, but have no special significance.
Numerous methods for staining capsules have been devised, but few are satisfactory.
The pneumococcus holds the purple stain, while all capsules take on the pink counter-stain.
When it is inconvenient to stain before the smears have dried, capsulescan be shown by the method of Hiss.
Capsules or closed shells may be produced in the same way by superimposing a layer of somewhat greater concentration.
This will give capsules with figured belts, vertical lines at regular intervals, or transverse stripes composed of projecting dots such as may be seen in many sea-urchins.
These capsules consist of two valves joined together at their circumference.
These capsules are closed at the summit by a cap, forming an operculum, so that they sometimes appear as if formed of two valves.
The calcareous capsules grown in a saturated solution of potassium carbonate or phosphate often take a regular ovoid form.
The genital products are dehisced into these capsules and thence pass into the ducts.
According to the view of Remak and Koelliker the outgrowths from the ureter give rise to the whole of the tubuli uriniferi and the capsules of the Malpighian bodies, the mesoblast around them forming blood-vessels, etc.
The branchial skeleton becomes more developed, and capsules for the olfactory sack and auditory sacks are established.
The glands are not continuous with the ducts, but are placed in special capsules from which the ducts proceed.
Castor oil may be bought in capsules, but on account of their size many people find the capsules impossible to swallow.
Pills and capsules should not be presented to patients in the attendant's fingers, but on a saucer or teaspoon.
Wait here until I get the gascapsules and the equipment.
There should be some Trematox capsules at the hospital.
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