Wrote Letter L-447 of 1706-04-20 to the members of the Royal Society about a piece of hanged woman's intestinal wall brought to him by Govert Bidloo

Date: 
April 20, 1706
Standard reference information
L-number: 
L-447
Leeuwenhoek's number: 
171
Collected Letters number: 
264
Collected Letters volume: 
15

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 a piece of hanged woman's intestinal wall brought to him by Govert Bidloo

the intestines of a woman who had been hanged: an account of the various layers and fibres of the colon

On the structure of the intestinal wall of a little piece of the colon deriving from a woman who had been hanged.