( 4^2.9 ) 
delivered on this fubjea la the doing of which we ffiall not 
fcruple to follow the French Phiiofophical Journais,puhli{ktd 
March ij. 2 i*and 2 to this effcd: 5 
What Doaori(fr4^^;/^, ffaithoneof themj hath from his 
curious Obfervations advanced, vii^. That Man hath his origin 
fromanEgg, hath been very differently received, feme ap- 
pearing furpri fed at it, others rallying with it, and many be- 
ing induced thereby to make further inquiry into it. This 
great diverfity of fentiraents made me think, I fliould'do well 
for the fatisfadion of all forts of people, to infert here the 
particulars themfelves, obferved by the faid Dr.^rir/W.and 
to add hereafter fome Refleaions, that may feem ncceffiry 
to remove the principal difficulties occurring in this mat- 
ter* ^ 
But fince the things to be faid do fuppofe fome knowledge 
of the Parts, where thefe Eggs are formed and perfeded^ it 
will not be amifs, beforehand tocaft your Eyes upon theV^ 
gures of Table JL, of which the l^^ rcprefen ts z Matrix wit\i 
its chief dependances ; where 
is the Matrix. 
C, the Bladder ofVrine^faftned to 
the neek^of the matrix, 
D. D.the tm tefticult, or rather 
F,F. the two vafa deferentia, >^ 
Fleemed by A natomifls to convey ffern e n 
tcfticulorum in uterum, 
the repofmry's, which contain the £g^s • pra^paran- 
E.E,the two TMhci of the "^''"'^'^ 
/■/g. II. reprcfeots Iggsof difFerent bigoefs„as DuKerhinE 
affirms to have found them in the teiticles of a Woman. 
^Vg. III. (hews a bigger Egg,, fuch an one as we have found 
at Faris in a Woman of 40 years of age.and in thofe of a Maid 
of 18 years. 
rig. IV« exhibits fmaller Eggs, of which we have found a 
good number in the tefticles of a Cow. 
Fig^. reprefents an Egg, which D. Ksrhring affirms to have 
opened three or four days aft« it was fallen into the matrix 
aWoman^ and in which be faw that littl© embryoti nx^xk^d 
whereof he found the He^d begun to be diftinguiflied from 
. the 
