Wrote Letter L-559 of 1717-09-17 to the members of the Royal Society about his own skin's fat globules and sweat ducts, holes in his finger nails, sweat ducts in humans and in cow teats, and how lice and fleas use sweat ducts to obtain their food

Date: 
September 17, 1717
Standard reference information
L-number: 
L-559
Leeuwenhoek's number: 
LXIII
Collected Letters volume: 
18

Leeuwenhoek wrote this letter about his own skin's fat globules and sweat ducts, holes in his finger nails, sweat ducts in humans and in cow teats, and how lice and fleas use sweat ducts to obtain their food