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loofa'd > And here Kerk^ingms afferts the affirmative § as hath 
been feen above, Thofe that are of the contrary Opinion^ lay^ 
that icisfure, that that bladder, like an Egg^ in which the 
fetus is form'd , corns not from elfewhere 5 fiace *tis koowOj 
that it is produced in the place of conception^ and even how 
it is there produced • as appears out of Harvey )h\A. & traft. de 
Concept, BefidesyT^)' they^ the veficles found in the body 
cfWomen^ are fofaftad there, that naturally they cannot be 
feparated from thence 3 and fuppofdnhey were loofti'd, there 
is in the fame place 5 where they are, no paffage large enough 
to get through. They add, that if you willgive thenamc of 
Eggs to all the velieles, to be found in the parts of Generati- 
on, there would alfb be Eggs in the body of Men, it being 
known, that at the fide of the ^//i/S ^/i?/ere«/i4 there are found 
divers vt(iQ\t$,vf\i\chAnatomijls compare to a Clufter of Grapes 
by reafbn of their figure. 
The Reader, faith this JoHrnalifl ^ is left to decide this 
Queftion. He only intimates, that in the many Animals, 
dilfcftedin the Royal Philofophical Academic at Paris thti^ 
were never found any vcficlcs aftually loofe. But thatj as to a 
paflagefor them, there had been, 5 years fince,difled3:ed a 
Woman, and found in each of the »^eri a manifeft cavity 
going into the bottom of the «^^/r/^ : Adding, that though 
the(e conduits appear not open ordinarily , they may yet di- 
late themfelves at the time of Conception : As the conduit, 
through which the Eggs of the Fowl do pafsout of the ovarium 
into the matrix^ is ufually very clofes but yet opcusfome- 
times, 
4. To return to M» De»// , he obferveth, that all other ani- 
mate creatures C not to fpeak now of Plants ) areproduced 
bythemeanes of Eggs 3 as Birds, Infefts of all forts, Fifhes 
( of which lafi: fort though Whales , Sea^Calves and Dolphins 
bring forth live creatures of their kind, yet they firft breed 
them within their Bodies in Eggs:) And why not Quadrupeds 
alfo and the Femals of Mankind ? 
5. As for Eggs, faid by Ker^r/w'^i^/ to have been found in 
Virginibhs , the fame M, Denys efteems that probable enougK 
For, faith he^ though v/e bad not the Inftance of HenS; lay- 
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