Wrote Letter L-196 of 1688-05-25 to members of the Royal Society about a medicinal root and bladderstones

Date: 
May 25, 1688
Standard reference information
L-number: 
L-196
Leeuwenhoek's number: 
61
Collected Letters number: 
106
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 investigation of 'raijs calomba', a medicinal root, and about an experiment with an extract of the root, and a distillation of the root, with Leeuwenhoek's blood. He also discussed bladderstones.