159 EXPERIMENTS 



EXPERIMENT I. 



Having procured the feminal veflelsof a man 

 who died a violent death, and whofe body was 

 ftilJ warm, I extraded all the liquor from them, 

 and put it in a vial. I examined, by the micro- 

 fcopc, a drop of this liquor, without any dilution. 

 As foon as the vapours, which arofe from the 

 liquor, and obfcured the glafs, were diflipated, I 

 obfervcd pretty large filaments [plate III. fig. i.], 

 v/hich, in fome places, fpread out into branches, 

 and, in others, intermingled with each other. 

 Thefe filaments clearly appeared to be agitated 

 with an internal undulatory motion, like hollow 

 tubes, which contained forne moving fubftance. 

 I faw diftindly [pi! III. fig. 2.] two of thef'e fi- 

 laments, which were joined longitudinally, fe- 

 parate from each other in the middle, and alter- 

 nately approach and recede* like two flretched 

 cords, fixed by the ends, and drawn afunder at 

 the middle. Thefe filaments were compofed of 

 globules which touched one another, and refem- 

 bled a chaplet of beads. I then obferved fila- 

 ments [pi. III. fig. 3,]' which were blown up, and 

 i welled in certain places, and perceived fniall 

 ovaj globules ifilie from thefe fwelled parts, 

 %vhich had a vibratory motion, like that of a 

 pendulum [pi. III. fig. 4.] Thefe finall bodies 

 were attached to the iilaiiients by little threads, 



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