Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14934

    A worm taken out of a dog

    Date
    18 September 1708
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    LBC
    Manuscript page number
    vol14 p225
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 302mm
    width (page): 176mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > parasite
    Description
    Drawing of a worm taken out of the head of a dog, in a letter dated 18 September 1708 to Hans Sloane from another Fellow, Richard Massey, who was a physician who practised in Wisbech, Isle of Ely.

    This figure was copied from LBO/14/204.
    Related fellows
    Richard Myddleton Massey (1673 - 1743, British) , Physician
    Hans Sloane (1660 - 1753, Irish) , Physician
    Associated place
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