JnExtraUof a Letter of M. de. S. Vim^ 
rice Af.DjoM.delaGlofure.d Thy- 
fttian cf Aiibeterre. of the T wenty Sixth 
of April 1^82: Concerning the formalin 
pno/a Fcxtusinthe Tefticle. Taken out 
of the four de Medicine Tttbli(kt 
^an, 1^83, r Abbe delaRocj^ue 
at Paris. 
I think Sr. that after what lately happened to Madam 
de Saint Mere ^ we ought no longer to doubt of the 
Formation of the Feetus in the TejHcles of Womenjand 
confcqueiitly of the EKulence o^Egs, This Lady whofe 
Merit is known to you , had been brought to bed Eight 
times asprofperouflyas mightbe, and after having con- 
tinued Five years without being with Child, in fomuch 
that (he thought her felf freed from thofe forts of Labours, 
about Three months flnce flhe fufpeded herfelf to be fallen 
into that condition again i becaufe having never failed of 
being very regular, and not finding her felf ill > flie was 
more than a Month without her ordinary relief. But whilft 
in this ftate (he had a little fhow, which fcarce left her 
wholy during the two laft Months of her Life , and which 
fhe paft neverthelefs without much trouble, fo that (he 
thought her felf to be fecure , as to the point of her being 
with Child, but that the 2 2^Inftant, after fliewas up in 
the Morning in very good health and had been writing a- 
bout an hour, fhe fell into Faintings, which made her loc fe 
. Pp a ab- 
