Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14859

    Hexapod vomited by a girl

    Date
    28 July 1675
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p267
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 313mm
    width (page): 195mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > insect
    nature
    Description
    Small marginal drawing which gives the size of the animal that was vomited out by an eight-month-old girl who had been ill for a week. The episode was related by Francis Jessop (1631-1698) to Martin Lister, who relayed it to Henry Oldenburg in a letter dated 28 July 1675, York, which was endorsed by Oldenburg on 3 September. It was printed in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 10, no. 117 (1675), pp. 391-95.

    This drawing is copied in LBC/7/401.
    Related fellows
    Martin Lister (1639 - 1712, British) , Physician
    Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
    Associated place
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