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of tlie uterus, he fays, were uncommonly red | 

 there was no change either in the ovaria, or in 

 the eggs which they contained ; and there was 

 not the leaft appearance of femen in the vagina, 

 in the uterus, or in the Fallopian tubes. 



Having difTe^led another rabbit, fix hours af- 

 ter copulation, he obferved, that the follicles, or 

 coats, which, in his eftimation, contain the eggs 

 in the ovarium, were become red; but he found 

 no male femen either in the ovaria or any where 

 elfe. Twenty hours after copulation, he difTedl- 

 ed a third ; he remarked in one ovarium three, 

 and in the other five follicles much altered; for, 

 inilead of being clear and limpid, they had 

 become opaque and reddifh. In another, dif- 

 fedied twenty- feven hours after copulation, the 

 horns of the uterus, and the fuperior canals 

 which terminate in them, were ftill mere red ; 

 and their extremities embraced the ovarium on 

 all fides. In another, which was opened forty 

 hours after copulation, he found in one ovarium 

 feven, and in the other three follicles changed. 

 Fifty-two hours after copulation, he examined 

 another, and found in one ovarium four changed 

 follicles, and one in the other ; and having open- 

 ed thefe follicles, he difcovered in them a kind 

 of glandulous liquor, with a fmall. cavity in the 

 middle, where he could perceive no fluid, which 

 made him fufpedt that the tranfparent liquor 

 ufually contained in the follicles, and which, he 

 fays, is inclofed in its own membranes, might 



have 



