Larva, bladder stone and scale
Date
1685
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Creator - Organisation
The Royal Society, Publisher
Object type
Article identifier
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (page): 213mm
width (page): 150mm
width (page): 150mm
Subject
Description
9 figures from issue 168 of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Figures 1-2. View of the exterior (1) and interior organs (2) of the caterpillar larva of the hawkmoth, referred to here as a connough-worm. Illustration to ‘A letter from William Molyneux Esq. secretary of the Philosophical Society of Dublin, to a F. of the R.S. giving an account of the connough-worm’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 15, issue 168 (23 February 1685).
Figure 3. Bladder stone as discovered in a boy at Paris. Illustration to ‘An account of a stone grown to an iron bodkin in the bladder of a boy’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 15, issue 168 (23 February 1685).
Figures 4-7. Microscopic study of the chalky discharge that erupts from tophi, a symptom of gout. Figures 8-9. Scale taken from the stomach of an eel as seen through a microscope (8) and with the naked eye (9). Illustrations to ‘An abstract of a letter of Mr. Anthony Leewenhoek Fellow of the R. Society; concerning the parts of the brain of severall animals; the chalk stones of the gout; the leprosy; and the scales of eeles’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 15, issue 168 (23 February 1685).
Figures 1-2. View of the exterior (1) and interior organs (2) of the caterpillar larva of the hawkmoth, referred to here as a connough-worm. Illustration to ‘A letter from William Molyneux Esq. secretary of the Philosophical Society of Dublin, to a F. of the R.S. giving an account of the connough-worm’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 15, issue 168 (23 February 1685).
Figure 3. Bladder stone as discovered in a boy at Paris. Illustration to ‘An account of a stone grown to an iron bodkin in the bladder of a boy’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 15, issue 168 (23 February 1685).
Figures 4-7. Microscopic study of the chalky discharge that erupts from tophi, a symptom of gout. Figures 8-9. Scale taken from the stomach of an eel as seen through a microscope (8) and with the naked eye (9). Illustrations to ‘An abstract of a letter of Mr. Anthony Leewenhoek Fellow of the R. Society; concerning the parts of the brain of severall animals; the chalk stones of the gout; the leprosy; and the scales of eeles’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 15, issue 168 (23 February 1685).
Related fellows
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632 - 1723, Dutch) , Microscopist
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