94 ME M O I R S of the 
An Egg found in the Tuba Fallopiana of a Woman 5 h^ 
Mr. Buffiere. Phil. Tranl^ N"* 207. p. ir. l^ranjlated from 
the French. 
A Young woman, between 25 and i6 years of age, conceived 
a few days before her execution 3 upon opening her body, 
M. Sufp.ere found, that the left Fallopian 'tube was dilated to- 
wards Its extremity in an extraordinary manner 3 the greateft dila- 
tation was more than an inch in diameter, and extended itlelf a 
little more than an inch and a half, tapering towards the Matrix 4 
this part, thus dilated, was bent, and embraced almoft the whole 
ovary, to whofe membrane it adhered fo clofely, that it could 
not De feparated therefrom but by force 3 after Reparation there 
iffued out a limpid andunfluous liquor, which manifeftly feem'd 
either to relax the membranes of the 'Tuba^ in order to promote 
its dilatation for the eafier dilcharge of the Qgo^ into the Matrix y 
or to anoint thispaffage, that the egg might have no difficulty in 
its way, and poAibly this liquor might anfwer both purpoles : 
M. 'Buffiere could obferve nothing in the body of the ^uba which 
could produce this liquor, tho* it was thicker than ordinary, and 
this thicknefs was owing to the fwelling of its fibres, which were 
as flefhy as thofe of ordinary mufcles, in order doubtlefs to give 
it a fufficient degree of force and motion for expelling the ^^^^ 
after it is detached from the ovary, and for conveying it into the 
Uterus 3 M. "Buffiere therefore thinks, that this liquor, contained 
in the 'iuba^ comes from the ovary, and that the fibres and fmall 
lymphatic veflels and others, .which are torn for opening a paflage 
for the impregnated ego, fuffer this liquor to run out, either for 
the firft nourishment of the egg, or to promote its paflage into 
the Uterui'^ what confirms this notion is, that in the females of 
animals, from whofe ovary feveral eggs are detached at a time, 
this liquor is found in conliderable quantities 3 and in a fow, the 
'Tuh£y on each fide embracing the ovary, were found to contain 
between three or four ounces of this liquor, each ; After the l^uha 
was feparated from the ovary, and the liquor run out, the egg came 
to view, it was of the bignefs of a fmall nut, and was furround- 
ed with this liquor in the middle of the dilated cavity of the 
I'uba-^ three fourths of this egg were already out of the ovary, by 
the hole which it had made therein, fo that it leemed to have no 
longer any connexion therewith 3 yet when he attempted to remove 
it, it was ftill faflened by a pedicle fufficiently firm, thro' which 
the Iknguineous veffels, which fpread themlelves within-fide, and 
upon the egg, did pals 3 it is by thefc veffels that the F(£tus 
receives 
