Wrote Letter L-233 of 1694-01-24 to the members of the Royal Society about tapeworms and salt and sand in cod intestines

Date: 
January 24, 1694
Standard reference information
L-number: 
L-233
Leeuwenhoek's number: 
78
Collected Letters number: 
131
Collected Letters volume: 
9

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 tapeworm in a human and compares this with worms found in the intestines of eels; tapeworms in a variety of fish; investigation of how the tapeworm feeds; observation of salt and sand in the intestines of cod