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in almost the same way as in males, as we have already described, and 

 course throughout the whole of their substance, and enter the vesicles, 

 within whose tunics many branches end after free division, in just 

 the same way as we have seen happening in the ovaries of fowls com- 

 posed of clustered egg yolks. 



As to whether the lymphatics found in the testes enter their sub- 

 stance, we have not yet determined with sufficient clearness to ven- 

 ture an assertion, although this seems probable. 



Those structures, which though normal, are only at certain times 

 found in the testes of women, are globular bodies in the form of con- 

 glomerate giandulae which are composed of many particles, extending 

 from the center to the circumference in straight rows, and are en- 

 veloped by a special membrane. We assert that these globules do not 

 exist at all times in the testicles of females; on the contrary, they are 



[ 178 ^ only detected in them after coitus, [being] one or more in number, 

 according as the animal brings forth one or more foetuses from that 

 congress. Nor are these always of the same nature in all animals, or 

 in the same kind of animal; for in cows they exhibit a yellow color, 

 in sheep red, in others ashen; because a few days after coitus they are 

 composed of a thinner substance and contain in their interior a limpid 

 liquor enclosed in a membrane, which when ejected with the mem- 

 brane leaves only a small space within the body which gradually 

 disappears, so that in the latter months of gestation they seem to be 

 composed of a solid substance; but when the foetus is delivered these 

 globular bodies again diminish and finally disappear. 



Finally, the abnormal objects sometimes found in the testes of 

 women are hydatids, calculi, steatomata, and other similar things. 



[^ 179 ] From what has just been said, everyone will readily gather that it 

 is the vesicles or their contents solely, which the nerves, arteries, 

 veins, integuments, and the other structures normally observed in 

 the testes are designed to serve. 



These vesicles have been described under various names by Vesalius, 

 Fallopius, Volcher Goiter, Laurentius, A Castro, Riolan, Bartholin, 

 Wharton, Dom. de Marchettis, and others, whose accounts it would 

 be too tedious to repeat here in full; it will not, however, be amiss to 

 quote two of them at the present time, in order that the truth may 

 be confirmed by their words. Fallopius says in his anatomical ob- 

 servations: "I have seen in them indeed certain vesicles, as it were, 

 swollen out with a watery humor, in some yellow, in others trans- 

 parent"; A Castro, also (lib. i, cap. 4: "De Natura Mulierum") , says: 

 "The testes have within them, besides the vessels, certain cavities full 



[ 180 ] of a thin and watery humor which is like whey or white of egg." Some 

 call these vesicles hydatids, but the celebrated Dr. van Home in his 

 Prodromum preferred to call them ova, a term which since it seems 



