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many viviparous females, never could perceive 

 any change in their ovaria : He even regards 

 them as glands totally unconnected with the 

 purpoles of generation *, though, as we have 

 feen, they undergo very confiderable changes. 

 This able anatomift was deceived by the finall- 

 nefs of the glandulous bodies in animals of the 

 deer kind, to which his refcarches were princi- 

 pally confined. Conradus Peyerus, who made 

 many obfervations on the tefticles of female 

 deer, remarks, ' Exigui quidem funt damarum 



* tefticuli, led poll coitum foecundum, in alter- 

 ' utro eorum, papilla, live tuberculum fibrofum, 



' ' femper fuccrefcit ; fcrofis autem praegnanti- 

 ' bus tanta accidit tefliculorum mutatio, ut me- 



* diocrem quoque attentionem fugere neque- 

 ' ant t-' This author afcribes, with propriety, 

 the reafon v.'hy Harvey obferved no changes in 

 the tefticles of the deer, to their fmallners. But 

 he is wrong when he tells us, that the changes 

 he had remarked, and which had efcaped Har- 

 vey, never happened but after impregnation. 



Harvey w^as deceived in feveral other effential 

 articles. He infifts, that the femen never en- 

 ters the uterus, and that it is iinpofTible it fhould 

 find admittance ; and yet Verheyen found a 

 great quantity of male femen in the uterus of a 

 cow, which he dilfedied fix hours after copula- 

 tion X' The celebrated Ruyfch informs us, that, 



* See Karvey, Exercit. 64. and 65. 



•}• See Conrad. Peyer. Merycolog. 



|, See Verheyen, fnp. anut. tra. 5. cap. 3. 



