Wrote Letter L-197 of 1688-07-06 to the members of the Royal Society bezoar stone, monkey stone, gout tubercles, and red coral and white coral
Date:
July 6, 1688
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 his investigations and experiments with:
- bezoar stone, a concentration found in the intestines of certain ruminant animals
- monkey stone, a special type of bezoar stone
- gout tubercles
- the red coral and white coral used in medicine