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the ^^^^defcended from the ovarium • fb likewifc this Sub^ 
ventaneous Egg I queftion not might be tranfmitted from 
the fame place; and iV^/^z^r^ who is never I Jle^ being dif- 
appointed of forming in this a perfedJ: Foetm^ made the 
beft of what the matter would afford \ and might produce 
Teeth ^ Bones and Haire J which may be reckoned as 
jdnimal V egetables. 
How liable thefe Parts m \AOinen are toTumors, there 
IS none who have been converfant in Morbid DifeUions 
but muftbe fenfibiej in fbmuch that thofe frequent In- 
ftances I have m.et with , hav^ fully perfwaded me that 
there is 710 Part in the Body is Jo often the feat and Caufes of 
I>ropfies in Women as the Ovarium^ a too Luxuriant afflux of 
Humors eafily extending thefe minuce Egs into large 
and fometimes moft prodigious Cyjlishy that fometimes I 
have taken fbme Gallons of water out of them, where I 
have found them entire ; tho moft times the vaft quantity 
of Waters burfts the Mm^r^;^^,andfo it empties it felf into;'l 
the Cavity of the Abdomen. 
But there are fomel find, who by no means will admit 
of£i^j- But will have them all to be Hydatides, But tit* 
fuch time as I can find fomethingmore confiderable objef^- 
ed againft this//y/?o//'^/j- 5 I cannot but firmly adhere to ir> 
iince to me it feems fa clearly demonftrated, befides abun- 
dance of others^that Infiance in the Philofoph, Trans, Num, 
1^7. I thiffk a good Proof, and that lately given in the 
Journal de Medicine makes it clear enough, which being re- 
markable it may gratify fome, itmay be , to have it iii ' 
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