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sion, five caruncles, soft warts, or papillae. The first of these 

 is larger than any of the others, and each in succession is 

 smaller than the one before it, just as the cornua themselves 

 become smaller and smaller towards their termination. Some 

 of the caruncles grow to the thickness of the largest finger, and 

 look like proud flesh ; - some are white, others of a deeper red. 



From the 26th to the 28th of September, and also subse- 

 quently, in the month of October, the uterus becomes thicker, 

 and the carunculse mentioned come to resemble the nipples of 

 the woman's breast : you might fancy them ready to pour out 

 milk. Having removed their apex that I might examine 

 their internal structure, I found them made up of innume- 

 rable white points compacted together, like so many bristles 

 erect, and connected by means of a certain mucous viscidity; 

 compressed between the fore finger and thumb, from the base 

 upwards, a minute drop of blood oozed out from each point, 

 a fact which led me, after farther investigation, to conclude 

 that they were entirely made up of the capillary branches of 

 arteries. 



During the season of intercourse, therefore, the uterine ves- 

 sels, particularly the arteries, are observed to be more nume- 

 rous and of larger size ; although the parts called the female 

 testes, as I have said above, are neither larger nor more highly 

 gorged with blood than before, and do not appear to be altered 

 in any way from their former state. 



The inner aspect of the uterus or cornua uteri, where it is 

 puckered into cells, is as smooth and soft as the ventricles 

 of the brain, or the glans penis within the prepuce. Nothing, 

 however, can be discovered there neither the semen of the 

 male, nor aught else having reference to the conception 

 during the whole of the months of September and October, 

 although I have instituted repeated dissections with a view of 

 examining the conception at this period. The males have been 

 doing their duty all the while ; nevertheless, reiterated dissec- 

 tion shows nothing. This is the conclusion to which I have 

 come, after many years of observation. I have only occasion- 

 ally found the five caruncles so close together that they formed 

 a kind of continuous protuberance into the interior of the 

 uterus. But when, after repeated inspections, I still found 

 nothing more in the uterus, I began to doubt, and to ask 



