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by Monfieur Thcroudc, a furgeon in Paris. This gentleman 

 fhewed to the academy an irregular mafs, which he took from the 

 right ovarium of a young woman aged eighteen years ; in this 

 were found fubftances refembling the eye-lids, with hairs in them 

 (imilar to thofe of the eye-lafhes and brows. He demonftrated 

 alfo two bundles of hair, of which one was fcven, the other three 

 inches in length ; near this were two dentes molares, hard, large 

 and white, inclofed in an alveolar procefs, with a flefhy fubftance 

 like the gums furrounding them ; they were not above three lines 

 in length. Befides thefe there were alfo found, in this inftance, 

 two other teeth, which we are told refembled the canini. 



Monsieur Mery difcovered in an ovarium a bone refembling 

 the OS maxillare fuperius, with feveral teeth in it, fo perfedly 

 formed that they appeared to have belonged to a child ten years 

 old. Of this cafe, we read in the fame volume of the old aca- 

 demy, as has been cited in the laft. 



In the Journal de Medicine (for January 1683) the Abbe de la 

 Rocque tells us of a woman who had brought forth eight children, 

 but died great of the ninth, which had grown in the ovarium. 



Monsieur be St. Maurice has related the hiftory of ?l fcetur^ 

 which he fays was found in an ovarium ; it was about the thick- 

 nefs of a thumb, and. its fex was deftinguifhable. 



Monsieur LittRe, in the Royal Academy of Sciences for the 

 vear 1701, has given the hiftory, already alluded to, of an ova- 

 rium which contained an embryo. 



RuYSCH, 



