DIFFERENTSY STEMS. iij 



experiments of Verrheyen *, by thofe of M, 

 Mery 'f, and by fome of his own, where he 

 found fewer eggs in the uterus, than cicatrices 

 in the ovaria. Befides, we fhall demonftrate that 

 w^hat he fays concerning the feparation of the 

 eggs, and the manner in which they defcend 

 into the uterus, is by no means exad ; that no 

 eggs exift in the teilicles of females ; that what 

 is feen in the uterus is not an egg ; and that the 

 fyftems which have been deduced from the ob- 

 lervations of this celebrated anatomift are per- 

 fedlly chimerical. 



This pretended difcovery of eggs in the tefti- 

 clcs of females attraded the attention of moft 

 anatomifts. They only found, however, in the 

 tefticles of viviparous females, fmall bladders^ 

 Thefe they hefitated not to confider as real eggs; 

 and, therefore, they called the tefticles ovaria, 

 and the veficles ejrg-s. They aflerted alfo, like 

 De Graaff, that thefe eggs differed in fize in the 

 fame ovarium ; that the largeft in the ovaria of 

 women exceeded not the bulk of a fmall pea ; 

 that they are very fmall in young girls ; but that 

 they increaled with age and intercourfe with 

 men ; ihat not above ao could be reckoned in 

 each ovarium ; that thefe eggs are fecundated 

 in the ovarium by the fpiritous part of the male 

 femcn ; that they then feparate and fall into 

 the uterus through the Fallopian tubes, where the 



H 2 • foetus 



• Tom. 2. chap. 3. edit. De Bruxelles, fjio* 

 I Hift. de I'ucad. 1701. 



