Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.15055

    Hexapod vomited by a girl

    Date
    28 July 1675
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    LBC
    Manuscript page number
    vol7 p401
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 303mm
    width (page): 180mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > insect
    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 is copied from LBO/7/267.
    Related fellows
    Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
    Martin Lister (1639 - 1712, British) , Physician
    Associated place
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          > United Kingdom
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