CHAP. viir. 



ReJleSl'ions on the preceding Experiments^ 



FPvOM the foregoing experiments, it ap- 

 pears, that females, as well as males, have 

 a feminal fluid containing bodies in motion j 

 that thefe moving bodies are not real animals, 

 but only organie living particles; and that thefe 

 particles exifl not only in the feminal fluids of 

 both fexes, but in the flefh of animals, and in 

 the feeds of vegetables. To difcover whether 

 all the parts of animals and all the feeds of plants 

 contained moving organic particles, I made in- 

 fufions of th^ flefh of different animals, and of 

 the feeds of more than twenty different fpecies 

 of vegetables; and, after remaining fome da.ys in 

 clofe glalTes, I had the pleafure of feeing organic 

 moving particles in all of them. In fome they 

 appeared fooner, in others later. Some preferved 

 their motion for months, and others foon ceafed 

 to move. Some, at firll:, produced large moving 

 globules, refembling animals, which changed 

 their figure, fpHt, and became gradually fmaller. 

 Others produced only fmall globules whofe mo- 

 tions were extremely rapid j and others produ-^ 



