148 Mifcellanea Curiafa. 



its Roots into the Vterus to receive its nourifli-" 

 merit j but the Eggs in Oviparis may be proper- 

 ly term'd an Uterus, in relation to the Foetus j 

 for they contain not only the Cicatricula, with 

 its Amnion and the Colli quamcntum , which is 

 the immediate nourifhment of the Foetus-, but 

 alio the materials which are to be converted in- 

 to that Colliquamentum ; fo that the Foetus fpreads 

 forth its Roots no farther than into the White 

 and Yolk of the Egg, from whence it derives all 

 its nourilhment. Now that an Animalcle cannot 

 come forward without fome (itch proper Nz'- 

 dus, Mr. Leewenboclt will not readily deny ; 

 for if there were nothing needful, but their be- 

 ing thrown into the Vterus, I do not lee why 

 many hundreds of them mould not come for- 

 ward at once ; for as to what Mr, Leexvenhoeck^ 

 fays, that one of them would be-dwarf and 

 choak the reft ; this might fall out in procels 

 of time : But at firfb I do not lee why many of 

 them mould not grow together, whilft fcatter'd 

 in fo large a Field (and yet no fuch thing is 

 obferved) if there were not an ablblute necef- 

 fity of a Cicatricula for their growth and thri- 

 ving. Now, 2. That this Cicatricula is not 

 originally in Vtero, feems evident from the fre- 

 quent Conceptions which have been found extra 

 Vterum : Such as the Child which continued 

 Twenty fix Years in the Woman of Iholoufes 

 Belly, mentioned Numb. 139. of the Fhihf. Tranf. 

 And the little Foetus found in the Abdomen de 

 St. Mere, together with- the Tefticle torn and 

 full of clotted Blood , recorded Numb. 1 5*0. 

 both taken out of the Journals des Savans : 

 Such alio feem to be the Foetus in the Abdomen 

 of the Woman of Copenhagen^ mention'd in the 

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