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The feminal fluid of females, therefore, be- 

 ing thus fully afcertained, after what has been 

 faid, we muft be fatisfied that the feminal fluid 

 in general is the fuperfluous organic part of our 

 food, which is tranfmittcd from all parts of the 

 body to the tefticles and feminal veflels of males, 

 and to the tefticles and glandulous bodies of fe- 

 males. This liquor, which ifllaes through the 

 nipples of the glandulous bodies, perpetually be- 

 dews the Fallopian tubes, and may eafily find 

 admiflTion into them, either by abforption, or by 

 the fmall apenure at their extremity, and in this 

 manner may defcend into the uterus. But, on 

 the fuppofition of the exigence of eggs, which 

 are ten or twenty times larger than the aperture 

 of the tubes, it is impoffible to conceive the pof- 

 iibility of their being tranfmitted to the uterus. 



The liquor fhed by females in the paroxyfm of 

 love, which De GraafF fuppofes to proceed from 

 lacunae about the neck of the uterus and the o- 

 rifice of the urethra, may be a portion of the 

 fuperfluous fluid that continuallydiflills from the 

 glandulous bodies upon the Fallopian tubes. But 

 perhaps this liquor may be a fecretion of a dif- 

 ferent kind, and no way conneded with gene- 

 ration. To decide this queftion, microfcopic 

 obfcrvations would be nccelfary ; but all expe- 

 riments are not permitted even to philofophers. 

 I am inclined to think, that, in this liquor, the 

 fame fpermatic animals, or moving bodies, would 

 be found as appear in the fluid of the glandulous 



bodies. 



