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and, it is said, successfully, the people applying them to the 
parts affected, and allowing them to bite their warts. It 
is not improbable that the remedy owes its successful ef- 
fect to the causticity of their saliva, which may act like the 
lapis infernalis. 
Grasshoppers are very often subject to diseases arising 
from the presence of intestinal worms, particularly the Hair- 
worm (Gordius), which not unfrequently causes their death. 
In Germany Grasshoppers are called Heupferde, that is, 
** Hay-horses,” because they generally feed on grasses, and 
their head has something of the form of a horse’s head. The 
French call them Sauterelles, that is, “‘ Hoppers.” 





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Carolina Grasshopper. 
The Carorna GrassHorrer (Gryllus Carolina, Fig. 22) 
is a very common insect of this Order, and is found in great 
numbers in the months of August, September, and October 
throughout the United States. So numerous are they, in 
fact, that one can not walk across a field or meadow with- 
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