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by reflcfting on what that very expert Anatomifl: Thomas JVhiw^ 
ton teacheth in his Treatife of Glandnlls cb. 33. concerning 
the maDoei: of Conception. For, according to him. Semen 
Viri penetrat in ieftes ftemin£ per uteri Tubas^ Now there it is 
joyned with the Egg ^ in fach a manner , which hath not been 
explained till no Wj bat is ©ever the lefs certain, and much re- 
fembling to what comes to pafs in the other oviparous ani- 
mals* 
The Egg being msde thosfecondj defcendsinto the womb 
through the vafa deferentia 5 and in two or three daysgrows 
of thebignefs of a black Cherry, When they fall dowu^they 
are a little bigger than we have reprefented them 5 but being 
foftj^ they are eafily fl^toed ^ and never remain round. Ifia 
falling they are handled and fli^htly prefTed^there will fticka 
little skin to the finger^ which (hews that Uis not feed, nor any 
thing like it 5 but of fuch Eggs, as we fpeak of. ¥a;min£ de- ~ 
jiciunt h£c Ova imfrimk tempore me fi fir mr urn vel in lra vche* 
mentia, 
I have had ( faith Kerck^'ifsgius) an occafion favorable e- 
nough for examining that Germe of three or at moft four daiee ^ 
reprefented Fig, V. A married Woman dyed 3 or 4 daits 
p^Jifluxum menjlruHm, I affifted at the opening of her Body^^ 
and having found in the matrix zYittiQ rooad mafs of the big- 
neli of a great black Cherry 5 Itookthe husband afide^ and 
gsked him, l^um a tempore fliixus wetfiruorum uxorem ccg^o- 
v^JJet } And having received for anfwer, that he had) f pray VI 
him to let me carry home with me this little ball, which lhad 
found in her womb . I was no fooner come home but i open'd 
itj and found, that nature had wrought v^ith fopjuch activi- 
ty in fo fmall a time, that one might already fee the firft linea» 
mcnts of a Child, fince we x^bferved loit the head as diftinft 
from the Body, and4iHhe head we took notice of feme traces 
of its principal organs.^ As for the reft of the Body, it wasno- 
thingasyet but araaffe groi ly wrought ^ as you may fee in 
tbisF/g^/e. 
But further, xh^Emhrio leprefcnfed m ¥ig. VL wrisonly 
of 1 54daies, when in its Head there were noted the Eyes^Nofe^ 
Mouth 'j, and Ears.5i and- the Body began behave Lcggs and 
