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have been difcharged by fome kind of rupture. 

 He fearched for this matter in the canals which 

 terminate in the horns of the uterus, and in the 

 liorns themfelves ; but he found nothing. He 

 only remarked, that the membranes which line 

 the horns of the uterus were- much fwelled. In 

 another rabbit, diiTeded three days after copu- 

 lation, he obferved, that the fuperior extremity- 

 of the canal, which terminates in the horns of 

 the uterus, ftraitly embraced the ovarium on 

 every fide : And, having feparafed it from the 

 ovarium, he remarked, in the right ovarium, 

 three follicles fomewhat larger and harder than 

 ufual. After fearching, with great care, the ca- 

 nals above mentioued, he difcovered, he fays, an 

 egg in the right canal, and two more in the 

 right horn of the uterus, fo fmall that they ex- 

 ceeded not multard feeds. Thefe little eggs 

 had each two membranes, and the internal one 

 was filled with a very limpid liquor. Having 

 examined the other ovarium, he found four 

 changed follicles ; three of them were whiter, 

 and had likewife fome limpid liquor in their 

 centres ; but the fourth was of a darker colour, 

 and contained no liquor, which made him fu- 

 fpc6l that the egg had efcaped. Pie therefore 

 fearched the corrcfponding canal and horn of 

 the uterus ; he found an egg in the fuperior ex- 

 tremity of the horn, which was exadly fimilar 

 to thofe he had difcovered in the right horn. 

 He alledges, that the eggs, when they are fepa- 



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