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Johann Michael Fehr (9 May 1610 - 15 Nov 1688)

Medical doctor, botanist, natural philosopher, and co-founder of the "academia naturae curiosorum" (1652), now now known as the German National Academy of Sciences Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Michael_Fehr Authority - early modern
Relevant locations: Lived at or near Leipzig, Saxony (Holy Roman Empire)
References in Documents:
Selections from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (1665-1669)
I. LVMBRICVS LATVS, or a Discourse read before the Royal Society of the Joynted Worm, wherein a great many Mistakes of former Writers concerning it, are remarked; its Natural History from more exact observations is attempted: and the whole urged, as a Difficulty against the Doctrine of Univocal Generation: by Edward Tyson M.D. Col. Med. Lond. nec non Reg. Societ. Soc. (127)

Jo.i Michael Fehr i Jo. Mich. Fehr de Hiera picra seu de Absynthio p. 125. a German Curioso in his Treatise de Hierâ picrâ sive de Absynthio in the year 1644. he observed in a piece voided by a Patient about 6. yards long, a head much different from that of Tulpius; he describeth this Worm cum collo sensim angustiore, & rotundiore in minutissimum capitulum atrum, & verrucosum, trium Papaveris seminum aptè conjunctorum formam exprimens, desinentem: cujus ||Vid. fig. 5 iconem ob raritatem hic addidimus. Indeed I must confess that account I had from the women who first observed it, and the Patient who voided that Worm I mentioned to have by me eight yards long: and was given me by my worthy Friend Mr. Houghton an Apothecary, seemed agreeable to this, tho when I first saw it I could take notice of no such thing: and therefore am apt to think 'twas onely some Thrumbs of the inward coat of the Intestine, which might stick to the hooks here, which might make this figure. For in the heads of all I have had yet an opportunity of feeling: I could never observe any such thing.