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
Standard reference information
L-number: 
L-197
Leeuwenhoek's number: 
62
Collected Letters number: 
107
Collected Letters volume: 
7

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