26 CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
, gut of the feminal yeficles, and expelled with fome confiderable force. The procefs 
_ of generation on the part of the female is thus: the clitoris being erected, after the 
like manner as the penis in man; and the neighbouring parts-all diftended with 
bload; they more adequately embrace the penis in coition; and, by ‘the ‘intumef. 
cence, prefs out a liquor) from the glands about the neck of the womb, to facilitate 
the pafiage of the penis. At the fame time, the fibres of the womb, contracting, 
open its mouth (which at other times is extremely lof) for the reception of the 
finer part of the feed, 
From this contact of the fexes, follows conception, or the preduGtion of an. alia, 
which is.effe¢ted inthe. following manner: In the fuperfices of the tefticles or ova- 
ries of women, there are found little pellucid fpherules, confifting of two concen- 
tric membranes, filled with a lymphatic humour, and conne¢ted to the furface of the 
ovaria, underneath the tegument, by a thick calix, centiguous to the extremities of 
the minute samifications of the Fallopian tubes. Thefe fpherules, by the ufe of 
venery, grow, fwell, raife, and dilate, the membranes of the ovary into the form of 
papilla ;. till, the head propending from the ftalk, it is at length feparated from it ; 
leaving it a hollow cicatrix, in the broken membrane of the ovary; which, how- 
ever, foon grows up again. Now, in thefe {pherules, while ftill adhering to the 
“ovary, foetufes have been frequently found: whence it appears, that thefe are’a 
kind of ova, or eggs, deriving their ftructure from the veflels of the ovary, and their 
liquor from the humours prepared therein. Hence, alfo, it appears, that the Fallo- 
Pian tubes being fwelled, and itiffened by the act of venery, with their mufcular 
fimbria, like fingers, may embrace the ovaries, compre{s them, and by that com. 
prefion expand their own mouths: and thus the eggs, now taature, and detached as 
before, may be forced into their cavities; and thence conyeyed into the cavity of the 
uterus ; where they may either be cherifhed and retained, as when they meet with 
the sadly or, if they want that, again expelled. Hence the phenomena of 
falfe conceptions, abortions, foetufes found in the cavity of the abdamen, the Fal- 
lopian tubes, &c. “For, in coition, the male feed, abounding with living animal. 
les, agit with a great force, a brifk heas, and, probably, with agreat quantity 
2 anit ni — is ee ee hinted Lae nahior a UsErUs, bjsainted 
Haha ok pirits Sy oby means of the etapa ‘lad in the nervous Fiagille by 
ition againft the rage ofthe vagina. The femen thus difpofed in the uterus, 
is retained aeaes by the Senunulfins saint of the uterus infelf 
