126 EXAMINATION OF 



In the body of a girl, aged five years, he 

 found the tefticles with their veficles, their blood- 

 veflels, and their nerves. 



In the teflicles of a v\^oraan of fixty years, he 

 difcovered fome veficles, and the veftiges of a 

 glandulous fubflance, Hke large points of an ob- 

 fciire yeilp^wifh brown colour. 



From ail thefe obfervations, Valifnieri con- 

 cludes, that the work of generation is carried on 

 in the female teftlcks, which he continued to re- 

 gard as ovaria, though he never could find any 

 eggs in them, and though, on the contrary, he 

 had difcovered that the veficles were not eggs. 

 He fays, like wife, that, for the impregnation of 

 the egg, it is not neceifary that the male femen 

 fhoiild enter the uterus. He fuppofes, that the 

 egg efcapes through the nipple of the glandulous 

 body, afrer being impregnated in the ovarium ; 

 that it then fails into the Fallopian tube ; that it 

 gradually defcends, and at laft attaches itfeif to, 

 the uterus : He adds, that he is fully perfuaded, 

 that the egg is concealed in the cavity of the 

 glandulous body, though neither he nor any other 

 anatomift was ever able to difcover it. 



In his eftlmation, the fpirit of the male feed 

 afcends into the ovarium, penetrates the egg, 

 and gives motion to the foetus v/hich previoully 

 exifted in the egg. In the ovarium of the origi- 

 nal mother of mankind, he obferves, were eggs, 

 which contained not only all the children fi>e 

 produced, but of the whole human race. If 



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