Wrote Letter L-263 of 1695-07-21 to Pieter Rabus about the report that a large caterpillar emerged from a woman's ear and fumigation with sulphur to remove it; Leeuwenhoek cannot find any mites in his own auditory canal
Date:
July 21, 1695
Text of the letter in the original Dutch and in English translation from Alle de Brieven. The Collected Letters at the DBNL - De Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren
Leeuwenhoek wrote this letter about …
the report that a large caterpillar emerged from a woman's ear. L.'s doubts about this and his advice to expel vermin from the auditory canal by fumigation with sulphur. L. cannot find any mites in his own auditory canal.
