biyj^&£Hng on what that very expertAnatomift 2^^^^ IVhar^ 
teacheth in his Treatife of GlandulU eh. 33, eoncerniog 
the manner of Conception. For, according to him, Sewem 
Viri penetrat in tejies pe^m£per uteri Tuhas^ Now there it js 
joyoed with the Egg j m fuch a manner , which hath not been 
explained till now, but is never the left certain^ and oiuchre- 
fembling to what comes to paft in the other oviparous ani- 
mals. 
IheEgg being made thus fccondj defecndsinto the womb- 
through the t^^^/Sj defermtia ^ and in two or three days grows 
of the bignefs of a black Cherry. When they fall down^they 
are a little bigger than we have reprefented them j but being 
Mt 3 they are eaffly ftatned ^ add Etyer remain round. If ia 
falling they. are handled and (lightly prefieditherc will ftick a 
little skin tothefingerj which fbews that 'tis not feed, nor any 
"thing like it , but of &ch Eggs, as we fpeak of. Frnmn^ ds-* ' 
jiciunt h£cOva imprimk tempore meftfiruorum^ vel mJrsmhr: 
mentia, 
I have had { (aith JCer£'%/^^/) an occafion favorable e- 
nough for examining that Germe three or at moft four daie?^. 
reprefented Fig. V. A married Woman dyed 5 or 4 daics 
ppfi flnxum menfirmm, I affifted at the opening of her Body^ 
and having found in the matrix little round mafs of the big- 
nefs of a great black Cherry ^ I took the husband alide^ and 
asked him , ISlum a tempore fluxus wenjirnQrum uxorem cogvo* 
viffit ? And hSving received for anfwerj that he b^d, I pray 'd 
him to let me carry home with me this little ball, which I had 
found in h^^rwomb . I wasno foonerci^^mehomevhi^t l open'd 
and founds that nature had wrought with fp much adivi- 
ty in fofmalla tifiiej that oq^^^ight already fee the firft linea» 
ments of a Child, fincep^e pbferved iB it the head as diftin<S 
from the Body, and ^ thehejid we took notice of feme traces 
of its principal organs. As for the reft of the Body, Jt was no- 
thing as yet but a mafle grol^ly wrought ^ as you may fee in 
this Figure, 
But further, the Er/ii^w reprefented in F;^, VI. was only 
of 1 54daie$5 when in its Head there wcrf poted the EyeSjNefe^ 
Mputh,;^_ and Ears;|^.afld, the Body hcgan 'to^^huve JLeggs and 
