62 \SEMINAL VERMICULY. Tt. 
as they had all the charateriftics of the feminal 
vermiculi, peculiar to the two fpecies of animals. 
Thefe obfervations prevented my furprife, when 
mixing a drop of femen with a drop of blood, 
fo that the vermiculi were forced from their 
proper liquid into the blood, they ftill lived 
as before. The fame has taken place with faliva $ 
and it is natural to fuppofe it will a with 
other anima} fluids. 
From thefe facts I draw two senile engi ; 
jirft, That it is not abfurd to fuppofe that the 
mother may ferve as a vehicle for the feminal 
vermiculi to tranfmit them to the young; /é. 
condly, That they live in the fluids of the young, 
particularly the blood, and are, in @ manner, re« 
tained there until puberty. I fay, iv @ manner, 
becaufe the rarenefs of feminal vermiculi in the 
blood fufficiently proves it is not a fluid that 
agrees too well with them ; perhaps, becaufe the 
aliment found there is not very well adapted to 
their nature ; and although the femen is derived 
from the blood, they are two very different fluids. 
To this it may be oppofed, that the vermiculi found 
in the blood of the male are re-abforbed by the 
yeflels, and mixed with the mafs of the blood. 
The obje€tion would be well founded if applied 
only to adult males; but it is infufficient where 
they are not fo, as tadpoles and fucking calves. 
The organs of generation are net unfolded in 
the 
