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Letter, from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to Francis Aston, dated at Delft

Reference number: EL/L1/70

Date: 28 December 1683

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Signed autograph
Observations of skin inside Leeuwenhoek's mouth and about his eczema, which he believed sudorifics could cure; observations of a child with a skin disease which causes the skin to become scaly (ichthyosis); observations of the intestines where Leeuwenhoek identifies blood vessels and lymph vessels; the effects of vinegar; experiment to demonstrate the adsorption of food nutrients in the intestines; an account of the intestinal wall and peristalsis
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Transcribed and translated in 'Alle de brieven van Antoni van Leeuwenhoek', edited, illustrated and annotated by Committee of Dutch Scientists, vol 4, p 167

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EL/L1/70
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28 December 1683
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24 pages
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Antoni van Leeuwenhoek

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Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Letter, from Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to Francis Aston, dated at Delft, 28 December 1683, EL/L1/70, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_l1_70/letter-from-antoni-van-leeuwenhoek-to-francis-aston-dated-at-delft, accessed on 09 October 2024

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