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Fabricius ab Aqnapendente, professor of medicine, at 

 Padoua, in the sixteenth century, and successor to 

 Fallopius; who discovered it to Hervey, at that time 

 studying physic under him in the University of Padoua, 



10. There Is another important discovery in anato- 

 my, attributed to Fallopiws, which had a more ancient 

 origin, I mean the two ducts which insert themselves 

 into the sides of the womb, and serve to convey the 

 seed or i'emaie sperm from the ovaries into the womb, 

 and are called the Fallopian Tubes, being shaped al. 

 most like a trumpet, and thought to have been dis- 

 covered by Faliopius, of Modena, who died in the 

 year 1662. We find them described as follows, by 

 Riiflus, of Ephesus* u Herophilus ".says he, ** ima- 

 gined that females had no seminal vessels, but in exa. 

 mining the womb of a beast, 1 found arising front the 

 ovaries certain ducts, which entwisted iuto each other, 

 were entirely varicous, and at their farther extremity 

 entered into the cavity of the womb. Upon compres- 

 sing them, there issued from them a glutinous humour, 

 and I am firmly persuaded they ara seminal vessels of 

 the very same structure with those in males, called the 

 raricous 



