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and that, he remarks, had- become ten times 

 fmaller than when they were in the ovarium. 

 This circumftance alone of their diminifhed fize 

 Ihoiild have convinced him of his miftake. 5. 

 He is equally unfortunate in maintaining that 

 the glandulous bodies are only the coverings of 

 the fecundated eggs, and that the number of co- 

 verings or empty follicles always correfpond 

 to the number of foetufes. This aflertion is the 

 reverfe of truth ; for, on the tefticles of all fe- 

 males, we uniformly find a greater number of 

 glandulous bodies, or cicatrices, than of foetufes 

 adually produced ; and they even appear in 

 thofe which never brought forth. Tothiswe may . 

 add, that neither he, Verheyen, nor any other 

 perfon, ever faw the egg in this pretended co- 

 vering, or in its follicle, though they have tht)Ught 

 proper to reft their fyftem upon that fuppofi- 

 tion. 



Malpighius, who difllnguiflied the growth of 

 the glandulous bodies in the female tefticle, was 

 deceived when he imagined that he once or twice 

 difcovered the egg in their cavities ; for this ca- 

 vity contains only a fluid; bcfides, after number- 

 lefs experiments, no man has ever been able to 

 difcover any thing that had the moft diftant re- 

 femblance to an egg. 



Valifiiieri, who is never deceived with regard 

 to fads, is wrong in maintaining that the egg 

 muftexift in the glandulous body, though neither 



