Anatomical observation of a hydatid
Date
22 February 1688
Creator
Unknown, Artist
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Dimensions
height (page): 224mm
width (page): 188mm
width (page): 188mm
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Description
A microscopic drawing of a hydatid, which Edward Tyson was the first to determine to be a living creature and possibly an embryonic form of worms. His paper was read to the meeting of the Royal Society on 22 February 1688, and published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 16, no. 193 (March to June 1691).
Transcription
Lumbricus Hydropicus: An Essay to prove that Hydatides [sic!] of ten mett with in morbid animal bodys are a species of wormes or Imperfect Animals.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
22 February 1688, 'Dr Tysons discourse of the Lumbricus Hydropicus was read, describing the Hydatides found in the bodies of the Animals cleaving to the coats of the Viscera. These according to the Drs opinion are worms sui generis or at least the embrio's of them. They were found involved in two coats like to the Corion and Amnion, the innermost having a neck of a more Opake and solid substance than the rest of the bladder, which neck, (at its first taking out of the Animall) was observed to move as if alive; the whole bladder, being filled with a limpid water, he supposed might be as the stomack to the Worm. There were several figures of this thing presented as appearing to the naked eye and in a Microscope. Thanks were ordered to be returned the Dr for this communication and the discourse to be published in the Transactions with the Drs consent' (JBO/8/188).
Figs 1-4, E. Tyson, ‘Lumbricus Hydropcius’, Phil. Trans., vol. 16, no. 193 (March, April, May and June 1691), pp. 506-10.
Figs 1-4, E. Tyson, ‘Lumbricus Hydropcius’, Phil. Trans., vol. 16, no. 193 (March, April, May and June 1691), pp. 506-10.
Related fellows
Edward Tyson (1650 - 1708, British) , Physician
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