Wrote Letter L-375 of 1700-07-27 to Hans Sloane about experiments with the larvae of cheese flies received from Sloane a week earlier and the treatment of his wife's toothache with vitriol
Date:
July 27, 1700
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 his preliminary investigation of the fly larvae that he had received from Hans Sloane a week earlier.
Included interesting story about his wife Cornelia's toothache.
the larvae of cheese-flies; experiments with cheese-flies and sulphur; treatment of toothache with vitriol
