123 EXAMINATION OF 



foetufes in the uterus. In young ewes, which 

 were never impregnated, there is but one glan- 

 dulous body in each tefticle, and, when one is 

 emptied, it is fucceeded by another ; if a ewe 

 has one foetus in the uterus, fhe has only one 

 glandulous body in her tefticles ; and if fhe has 

 two foetufes, fhe has Hkewife t\vo glandulous 

 bodies. This glandulous body occupies the 

 greatefl part of the tefticle ; and-, after it is 

 emptied and difappears, another begins to grow 

 for the purpofe of a future generation. 



In the tefticles of a flie-afs, he found veficles 

 as large as fmall cherries ; which is an evident 

 proof that they are nm eggs, as it would be im- 

 pofTible for them to pafs, by the Fallopian tubes, 

 into the uterus. 



The tefticles of female wolves, dogs, and 

 foxes, are covered with a membrane, like a purfe, 

 which is an expanfion of that which furrounds 

 the horns of the uterus. In a bitch which began 

 to be in feafon, but had not been approached by 

 the male, Valifnieri found the internal part of 

 this purfe, which does not adhere to the tefticle, 

 moiftened with a liquor that refembled whey, 

 and two glandulous bodies in the right tefticle, 

 about two lines in diameter, and which occu- 

 pied nearly the whole extent of this tefticle. 

 Each glandulous body had a fmall nipple, with a 

 diftind; filTure, from which, without prefTing it, 

 there ifTued a liquor like clear whey ; he there- 

 fore concluded, that this liquor was the fame 



which 



