The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
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 modernRelevant locations: Lived at or near Leipzig, Saxony (Holy Roman Empire)
References in Documents:
LVMBRICVS LATVS,
or a Discourse read be
fore the
fore the
of theJoynted Worm,
wherein a
great manyMistakes
great many
of formerWriters
concerning it, are
remarked; itsNatural History
remarked; its
from more exact observa
tions is attempted: and the whole urged, as aDifficulty
tions is attempted: and the whole urged, as a
against the Doctrine ofUnivocal
Generation: by
Tyson
M.D.Col. Med. Lond. nec non Reg. Societ.
Soc.
Jo.i Michael FehrCurioso in his Treatise
Hierâ picrâ sive de Absynthio
ed 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.
confess that account I had from the women who first ob
served it, and the Patient who voided that
ed to have by me eight yards long: and was given me by
my worthy Friend
Houghton
agreeable to this, tho when I first saw it I could take no
tice 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
headsof all I have had yet an op
portunity of feeling: I could never observe any such thing.