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varlum, or adjacent to It only. This foetus was 

 about an inch thick, and completely formed. In 

 the Philofophlcal Tranfadions, examples are re- 

 corded of teeth, hair, and bones beinp- found in 

 the ovana of women. If all thefe fa6ts can be 

 credited, the feminal liquor of the male muft be 

 fuppofed fometimes, though rarely, to mount up 

 to the ovarla. But there are many confideratlons 

 which render this point extremely doubtful: 



1. The fuCis which feem to fupport it are few : 



2. The only inftance of a perfect foetus found 

 in the ovarium, is narrated in a very fufpicious 

 manner by M. Littrc. Neither is it impolfible 

 that the feminal fluid of the female alone may 

 fometim.es produce organized maflcs, as moles, 

 clfts full of hair, of bones, or of flelh. Bcfides, 

 if we are to believe anatomlfts, foetufes may be 

 formed in the teflicles of men as well as in thofe 

 of women ; for, we are told by a furgeon, in the 

 cd volume of the hiftory of the old academy *, 

 that he found a foetus, with its membranes, in 

 which the head, the feet', the eyes, the bones and 

 cartilages, v/ere di/lingui (liable, in the fcrotumof 

 a man. Were all thefe fadls equally worthy of 

 credit, we mull: neceffarily adopt one of the t^AO 

 following hypothefes ; either that the ferr.inal 

 Ruid of each fex can produce nothing without 

 being mixed v/itli the other ; or, that either of 

 the fluids alone is capable of producing irregu- 

 larly on^anized malfes. If we maintain the for- 



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