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delivered on this fubjed: lo the doing of which we ffiall not 
fcruple to follow the French Philofophical Journals^puhliihQd 
March if. si^and 20^ to this effcdc 
WhztDolioT I(er^inj7^ ffaithoneof themj hath from his 
curious Obfcrvations advanced, z//;^.That Man hath his origin 
from an Eggs hath been very difiereotiy received^ fome ap- 
pearing furprifed at it, others rallying with it, and many be- 
ing induced thereby to make further inquiry into ft. This 
great diverlity of fentiraents made me think, I fliould do well ' 
for the fatisfadion of all forts of people, to iofert here the 
particulars themfelves, obferved by the faid Dr.i^fr/^nA^^^and 
to add hereafter fome Reflei^ions, that may feem ncccflary 
to remove the principal difficulties occurring in this mac- 
te.r* 
But fince the things to be faid do fuppofe fome knowledge 
of the PartSg where thefe Eggs are formed and perfeded^ ic 
will not be amifs, beforehand to caft your Eyes upon the Ft" 
gures of Table JI^ of which the reprefents a Matrix with 
its chief dependances; where 
BJsthe mtn%, ^ A P.i^.^kf^o'vafa deferentia, 
the Bladder of Vme , f4ned to ^^^^^^ Anatomifis to convey femen 
the nesk^of ths matrix, 
D.D. the two tefticuli, or rathe 
the repofttory's. which commn the Mg-f 
ffokenof. ■ . , \perfe5ied.m ccfticulis 
£,E* the two Tmes of the matrix^* 
tefticulorum in uterura» 
G. G, the two vafa praeparan- 
tia, for preparing the matter^ tePe 
Fig. 11. reprefents Eggs of different bigpefs, as Dr, ^rhring 
afSrms to have found them in the tefticles of a Woman. 
Fig. III. fliews a bigger Egg, fuch an one as we have found 
at Taris in a Woman of 40 years of age,and in thofe of a Maid 
of 18 years. 
Tig. IV* exhibits fmaller Eggs, of which we have found a- 
good number in the tefticles of a Cow. 
F/g. V. reprefents an Egg^ which D. IQrj^ing affirms to have 
opened three or four days after if was fallen into the matrix of 
a Woman, and in which he faw that little embryon marked 
B^whereof he found the Head begun to he diftinguifhed from 
the 
