Letter 28 Figure

The testicle of a dog after the second skin had been taken off; the second skin sticking to the testicle; the vas deferens; the food-carrying sperm-vessel (otherwise called vas preparans).

De testicul van de hond na sijn tweede huijt ontbloot; de tweede huijt die aende testicul vast is vereenicht; het vas deferens; het voetsel toedragende saet vat (anders genaemt vas preperans).

Letter 28 of April 25, 1679 Figure | Levende Dierkens

The testicle of a dog after the second skin had been taken off; the second skin sticking to the testicle; the vas deferens; the food-carrying sperm-vessel (otherwise called vas preparans).

De testicul van de hond na sijn tweede huijt ontbloot; de tweede huijt die aende testicul vast is vereenicht; het vas deferens; het voetsel toedragende saet vat (anders genaemt vas preperans).

Origin of specimen:

a Delft labourer who also applies himself to the castration of dogs and cats. He brought to my house two dogs whose testicles he took out in my presence.

Standard reference information

Letter of:

April 25, 1679

Written to:

Nehemiah Grew

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Publication history

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Levende Dierkens

Letter:

Wrote Letter L-080 of 1679-04-25 to Nehemiah Grew about living little animals in fish, hare, and dogs and his calculation that more than ten times as many living animals come from the milt of a cod as there are people living on the Earth