Editing Parasitism (section)

=== Medieval ===

[[File:Francesco Redi Osservazioni intorno agli animali viventi che si trovano negli animali viventi Plate 14.jpg|thumb|upright|A plate from [[Francesco Redi]]'s ''Osservazioni intorno agli animali viventi che si trovano negli animali viventi'' (Observations on living animals found inside living animals), 1684]]

In his ''[[The Canon of Medicine|Canon of Medicine]]'', completed in 1025, the Persian physician [[Avicenna]] recorded human and animal parasites including roundworms, threadworms, the Guinea worm and tapeworms.<ref name=Cox2004/>

In his 1397 book ''Traité de l'état, science et pratique de l'art de la Bergerie'' (Account of the state, science and practice of the art of shepherding), {{ill|Jehan de Brie|fr|Jean de Brie}} wrote the first description of a trematode endoparasite, the sheep liver fluke ''[[Fasciola hepatica]]''.<ref name=ChengHistory/><ref>{{cite book |editor=Humphrey-Smith, Ian |title=Sept siècles de parasitologie en France |trans-title=The French School of Parasitology |language=fr |pages=26–29 |publisher=Société Française de Parasitologie |date=1993}}</ref>