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was found with 9, or loleflTer ones in a woman of 40 years of 
ge* Such as were found by him in the tefticlesof a Cow, 
are duly exhibited in Fig.fourth. If any do wonder, thatia 
fobig an animal they flbould be fo much fmaller then in a Wo- 
man; he will have more caufeto admire, that Women have 
them fo little in comparifon of thofe of Ducks 3 Hens.&c. the 
firft beginnings of things not bearing alwaies a proportion to 
their ftate of encreafe^ as Beanes and Peas( e.g.) whence 
grow plants but of a very midling fize^are much bigger feeds, 
than the kernels of Apples and Pears, which do produce con- 
fidcrably big Trees, Befides, it may be, that Covves, when 
in their heat^ may afford bigger Eggs. Mean time the reafon 
why the Eggs of Fowl are alwaies proportionably bigger than 
thofe of Women and of Quadrupeds, is^that they, when laid, 
muft contain the matter not only for forming, but alfo for feed* 
ing the young animals 
3. That this Opinion is not Co new, as fome imagine 5 fince 
Fallopius in Obferv* Anatom. BartoL Anat. reform. 1. 1. 
Riolan, Eflch. anat. L 2. c. 37. Lauretit. AnaC. 1. 7. 10. make 
xnemionofthem* 
But here we lhall obferve the True fiate of the ^eftion out 
ofthe jf<?«r/f<i/of Monfieur Gauhis^fzyingj thatthe veficlesor 
Eggs in all forts of femals,areto'be confidered in three condi- 
tions; i*When they are faftn'd to the place where nature hath 
Jodg'd them as in a rcpofitory. 2. When they are loofn'd from 
thence. 3, When they enclofe the Embrion^ The firft of thefe, 
namely, that there are vcficles in all forts of Feraals, faftnd 
to their Bodies,is certain, and not new 5 as appears by the Au- 
thors jnfl: now quoted. It is alfo certain, that after concepti- 
on, that which endofeth the F^^^»/ , is almoft like an Egg 3 
but this is not new neither, feeing that H/)>^^i;r4fe/ hath ob- 
fcrved it lib. de natura puer ; and Ariftotle hath faid it more 
thanonce, viz.L7.hift. Anim.c. 7.andl. 3. de gener* Anim* 
C.9. To which alfo the moderns agree and amongft others 
the famous Harvey Exp^r. 68. de gener. Anim. The ^efii- 
on therefore is only. Whether thefe Veficles, faftn'd to the bo- 
dy of Femals, are loofn'd from it; and whether that kind of 
EggSj wherein the Emhrion is formed, is one of the veficles 
ioofocd ? 
