The most successful semen of the male penetrate 

 through the cervix of the uterus into its most 

 internal cavity and from there they rush . . . through 

 the gaping openings of the uterine tubes and particu- 

 larly to that one,.... which is raised upwards with 

 a wide termination bending to the ovary itself, and 

 firmly fitting closely to it with its wide mouth. The 

 ovum in the female ovary, or in the nest, matures 

 and is fertilized by the male sperm; from there it 

 separates and is freely nurtured by the corresponding 

 tube, and there it is freely acquired and little by 

 little it is carried to the hollow of the uterus 

 itself, where with its greatest part facing towards 

 the internal bottom, its surface grows first to a 

 very thin hold, by which it is rooted. Little by 

 little it receives a new increment by which the new 

 uterine fetus impartially grows and assumes its 

 personification, (p. IV - V) . 



Here almost every sentence causes a feeling of amazement 

 for such accuracy and correct description of the features 

 which would be for some years the subject of unjustified 

 guesses and fantastic imagination. Right before 1827, when 

 K. M. Baer discovered the ovum of mammals and man, the most 

 inaccurate assumptions about the process of fertilization 

 were developed, especially by the supporters of speculative 

 nature philosophy. 



Ambodik talked, presumably, about the earliest stages of 

 development of the embryo, but here he approached quite closely 

 the actual relationships which were also recognized with 

 certainty significantly later. 



"Hopefully, and it is highly probable, the new embryo in 

 the first days of its existence in the uterus has the shape 

 of a vesicle like a small ball. After three or four days 

 from conception this ball takes a rounded shape with a 

 diameter of about ten millimeters" Cp. IV). His description 

 of the subsequent stages does not leave any doubt that Ambodik 

 stuck to the epigenetic idea, because he described the organs 

 developing one after the other from undifferentiated rudiments. 



After a lapse of seven days it is possible to see some 

 small fibers which are mutually connected among 



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