The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
son of Mr. B. ( - fl. c. 1675)
PatientRelevant locations: Lived at or near Ripon, Yorkshire
Linked print sources: as Mentions or references - An extract of a letter of July 28, 1675. by Mr. Lister from York to the publisher; containing some observations about damps, together with some relations concerning odd worms vomited by children, &c..
References in Documents:
stance
not unlike that in this Letter:
A B
of age, in the month of February last
pain in his Stomach, and continual Vomitings. A Powder was
given, wherein was a small quantity of
thereupon vomited up several strange
were brought to me at
which lived many daies after it came to my hands, and might
have lived longer, but that I put it into Spirit of Wine, to
preserve it in its true shape. These Worms were very Caterpillars
with fourteen legs,
viz.six small pointed, the eight
middle stumps, and the two hind claspers; something more
than an inch long, and of the thickness of a Ducks-quill, thin
haired or rather naked, with brown
The very same for kind that I have many times seen on Plants,
and no doubt, these (as those others) would in due time (if the
place had not hindered) have shrunk into
changed into Moths. As also those mentioned by Mr.
would have changed to Beetles.