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he, nor any man elfe, was ever able to difcover 

 it. 



Let us now attend, to what may be efteemed 

 the real difcoveries of thefe anatomifts. De Graaft' 

 was the firfl who difcovered that the tefticles of 

 females fuftcred any change; and he was right 

 in maintaining that they were parts eflentially 

 neceflary to generation. Malpighius demonflra- 

 ted, that the glandulous bodies gradually grew to 

 maturity, and that, immediately after, they were 

 obliterated, and left behind them a flight cica- 

 trice only. Yalifnieri illuftrated this fubjedl: ftill 

 farther. He difcovered that thefe glandulous 

 bodies were found in the tefticles of all females; 

 that they were confiderably augmented in the 

 feafoij of love ; that they increafed at the ex- 

 pence of the lymphatic veficles of the tefticle ; 

 and that, during the time of their maturity, they 

 were hollow and full of liquor. Thefe are all 

 the truths we have learned concerning the pre- 

 tended ovaria and eggs of viviparous animals : 

 What conclufions are we to draw from them ? 

 Two things appear to be evident : The one, that 

 no eggs exift in the tefticles of females ; the o- 

 ther, that there is a fluid both in the veficles of 

 the tefticle, and in the cavity of the glandulous 

 bodies ; and we have demonftrated, in the pre- 

 ceding experiments, that this laft fluid is the true 

 female femen, becaufe it contains, like that of the 

 male, fpermatic animals, or rather organic par- 

 ticles, in motion. 



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