PHYSICAL AND LITERARY. 447 



Art. XVI. 



A Dejcription of the Seminal VeJJels, by 

 Alexander Monro, Student of Me- 

 dicine in the Univerfifj of Edinburgh, 



'T' HO UGH all anatomifts agree, that 

 the feed feparated in the tefticle, 

 pafTes through the epidydimis, to rife in 

 the 'uas deferens^ yet few have a right no- 

 tion of even the groffer tubes in which it 

 is conveyed. I have luckily made quick- 

 filver pafs farther in thefe feminal veC- 

 fels, and thereby brought more of them 

 into view, than I fee defcribed in any 

 anatomical book ; as you may judge by 

 the preparations and pidlures which I 

 now. fend you, at my father's defire. 



Dk Graaf had formerly endeavoured, 

 by diffedlion, to unravel the epidydimis ; 

 and paints itf, as rifing from the tefticle 



in 

 * De Vir. Organ. Tab. i. Fig. 3. et Tab. 4. Fig. 3., 



