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molecules of femen incompletely difTolved. In 

 fome they were free, and fwam in the place of 

 the clot diflblved ; others were attached by the 

 appendage to what part of it was entire, and 

 endeavouring by great exertions to difengage 

 themfelves. When altogether detached from the 

 fpermatic molecules, they fwam about in the fluid. 

 I found fomething more. A clot was partly in 

 filaments ; many ovular corpufcula appeared a- 

 bout them,which, notwithftanding their exertions, 

 were unable to accompliih their liberation. In 

 this femen they lived about two hours and a. 

 half. 



When I took the feminal fluid from a dead- 

 human body, mod part feemed diffjlved (i). 

 Many corpufcula furpafled the common fize. 

 Here my obje£t was to fearch with all poffible 

 care for what had been feen in the courfe of ^ the 

 preceding obfervation ; and I faw the whole, ex^ 

 cept the phenomenon of corpufcles, attached to 

 clots, which could not happen as the femen was 

 entirely diflblved. Some corpufcula continued to 

 move for three hours. 



In the examination of this feminal fluid (2), 

 which was at firfl: a little thick, I accidentally 

 difcovered a method of obferving the corpufcula 



and 



(1) March 27. The Thermometer 54°, 



(2) Apnl 15. The Thermoilieter 60°. 



