AN.D BAMILY DISPENSATORY, 83. 
The as deferentia, in women, {pring from the lower part of the tefticles, andare_ 
either i inferted with a very fhort paffage into the bottom of the womb, or diffemi- 
nated at the trumpets of the womb, with fundry exceeding {mall {prigs, not much 
unlike the vena lacte, arifing from the vafa preeparentia, and Continued with them, _ 
though here changing their name and ule. Their fubftance is firm, white, and. 
nervous, , They pafs by the membranous ligaments to the matrix, not ftraighe, but 
wreathed or twining, with a multitude of windings; that the fhortnels of the way 
might be recompenfed by fuch a labyrinth. Near the tefticles they are broad, after- 
wards they become narrower, and fmaller, and about the womb they become broad ” 
again, and are inferted i into the cornua, and capacity of it, Their ulei is partly | tocarry 
the feed to the trumpets of the womb, to be there farther perfected, and better ela- 
borated, and to be kept for ufe: and partly vo carry it to the bottom of the womb, 
where another branch runs into the neck, by which way alfo the feed is voided, 
caufing (by. reafon of | the length of the way) the greater delectation, The tube 
Sablopiane (fo called from their likenels to a trumpet of war) are two in number, 
‘one on,.cach fide, cof _a-nervous, white, thick, and hard, fubftance; and of a figure 
long, round, and hollow. “Thefe Spigelius calls yafa ceca, becaufe they have but 
one orifice, They arife.from.the bottom.of the womb, at one end; and, when they 
have, gone a little therefrom, they grow, broader. by little and little, crifping them- 
felves like the tendrils of a-vine, till they come towards their ends, Then, »difmiffing 
’ their. wrinkled crifpations,. and becoming very broad, they end in a certainextremity 
which feems.membranous and flefhy by reafon of their red colour, and at laft become 
very torn and jagged, having large holes. which lie always thut, thofe jagged ends 
ever falling i in upon, them,. which notwithitanding, if they be opened and widened, 
reprefent che broad end of a brazen trumpet. They pafs obliquely from the cornua 
Pier uni ee being carried. by the. membranous ligament, and (as it 
ti le es, but are diftant alata: bipaices half an 
FREE RSBAM tae. aoe part. They ‘are commonly faftened by 
thing ot Siccacioemau ne Da Aitcer-mice, through which 
3 ‘many veins and arteries are diffeminated from the tefticles into their hollows niet 
‘buwich che feeds conveyed £ from the tefticles into thefe tube or trumpets. Their Lage 
“of the womb is large, whence fprings 2 netvous PiPS 
. their middle is capacious, with certain ] ei 
white feed 5 . after which they are wreathed ed and ci fped: thei 
aa. 
“of the. trumpet, that by it the feed may be * ae 
