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ing Eggs without any congrcfs of a Cock 5 the place where 
they arc bred fliews enough, that Man contributes nothing 
to their produdion ; all that he can do, being nothing but an 
atcradion of the Eggs out of their Confervatory , and 
the making them delcend into the uterus 5 ut ibi irrorentur i 
(emine, 6J fiecunditatem acqmratit ; even as the Juices of the 
Earth do vivifie all the Plants by infinuating themfelves into 
the grains 3 and penetrating their skins* And it may be, it is 
the alteration that befalls thefe Eggs, when they are retain- 
ed too long, which caufeih the abundance of Vapors and 
diforders, which other parts are accufed of. Qo which oc- 
cafion he alledgeth a notable example of a young Maid of 
quality, that lately died in the iZth year of her age 3 who 
was fubjedt to very frequent Hyfterical fits of vapors, of 
which (he was one day affaulced with fo great violence, that 
it coft her her life. Her Body being opened , Tefticulus dexter 
erat fiaccidus , & figura folit<e ; at finifier adeo tumidus (g infia* 
tus^ ut Ovi Anatis aequaret magnitudinemi Eoque aperte^Ovum 
fuit intus repertum ^ OHvam figura (3 magnitudine referens, (3 
(eparatu nequaquam difficile. This , be faith , is ftill kept by 
Monfieur ^£«r^* 
B. Since thefe partfculan were fent to the Pr^5 there 
came to the Publilhers hands the very lately printed Book 
of that diligent and expert Anatomift T^^^w^rw/ Gr^^/, in- 
tituled TraSatus novus de Mdierum Organis generationi itifer* 
vientibus 5 in which the above-recited difficulties, moved by 
M» Gauloisy and others alfo, are amply taken notice of, and 
ingenioufly folved : Concerning which, we may by the next 
opportunity give the Curious Reader a fuller accompt ; 
as alfo,whercin the faidDe Gr^i^/diflcrs from Kerkr^ffgiuf^m this 
matter, which , for want of time 3 could not be done 
.at prefent. 
