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rhe Members of which were eafily to be felt 

 through the Skin of the Belly, and which fhe had 

 carried in her Belly for four Years \ and the fe- 

 ven Years Gravidation, related by Dr. Cole, 

 Numb. 1 71. of the Tranfatl. That thefe two 

 were undoubtedly extra Vterum, is uncertain, 

 becaule the laft was not open'd after her death, 

 and the former may be yet ftill alive. Now 

 granting; once the neceility of ^proper Nidus, 

 for the formation of an Animalcle into the Ani? 

 mal of its refpe&ive kind ; thefe Obfcrvations 

 make it probable, that the Tefles are the Ovaria 

 appropriated for this ufe ; for tho' the Ani- 

 malcles coming thither In fuch Cafes may teem 

 to be extraordinary, and that ufually the Im- 

 pregnation is in Vtero ; yet it may be collected 

 from hence, that the CicatricuU or Ova to be 

 impregnated, are in Teftibus fcemineis ; for if it 

 were not fo, the accidental coming of Animal- 

 cles thither could not make them come fof<- 

 ward more than in any other part of the Body, 

 lince they cannot be formed and nourifhed with- 

 out a proper Nidus. But 3. It is acknowledge 

 by all, that the Fcetus in Vtcro, for fome con- 

 fiderable time after Conception, has no connexi- 

 on with the Womb, that it fits wholly loofe to 

 it, and is perfectly a little round Egg; with the 

 Fcetus in the midft, which (ends forth its Um- 

 bilical Veffels by degrees, and at laft lays hold 

 on the Vterus. Now from hence it feems evi- 

 dent, that the Cicatricula, which is the Foun- 

 tain of the Animalcles nourifhment, does not 

 fprout from the Vterus, but has its Origin elfe* 

 where, and falls in thither as into a fit Soil, 

 from whence it may draw Nutriment for the 

 growth of the Fcetus , elfe it cannot be eafily 

 imagined, how it fhould not have an immediate 

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