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by Nature for the carrying the Semen into the lJhrus.Pi.r\A 
I therefore f^/x'fj-, Foxes znd Dogs zvq faftned, and tho* 
the Z)e?^ at firft flieds a little thin clear moifturei yet that 
is not a true for I could not find any Animals in 
it. But as he is faftned, there drops very leafurely a 
little Semen which is white^ by reafon of the great number 
of Animals contained in it: and this would not reach 
the vterus, ("becaufeof its coming fo flowly, and of the 
Iwelling of the Penis,) unlefs the Dog were faftned. 
I remember thai: Dr. Grew formerly Secretary of the 
Society^ in a letter to me, ufed fome words to this pur- 
pofe. Your i/^rz/^j^ inhis V>o6kde Generatione Animali" 
denies that he ever found in the Vterus Anatomifed 
immediately after conception, the Semen Majculum. And 
our Dr. de Graaf in his Book de Partibus Muliebrihus 
Generationi infervieniz b us ^ conQ:d,n.t\y afferts, that the 
Semen Mafculum^ is nothing but a Vehicle of a certain 
Volatile Salt, or fuch like fpirit, conveying to the Egg 
of the Female a ContaBum Vitalem. 
But tho* a late Writer has reckoned up the Authorities 
of 70 Perfons, who have aflerted the lame Opinion, and 
that of the Ovarium, yet I think they have been all mi- 
I ftaken. As will appear by the following Tryals. 
Ibefpoke z Bitch of ordinary fize, to be delivered 
tome after fhe had been once lined, which hapned to - 
be the SothofDecember laft, upon the next day at 8 of the 
I Clock in the morning, the Bitch w^s lined again, in my 
I preience, and again at 2 a Clock in the afternoon, where- 
I upon I caufed her to be killed by running an Awl into 
the Medulla Spinalis near the head. Asfoonasfhe was 
j dead^ I bound her legs to a Table, and opened the 
.( gina) where I found a white fubftance, which I took out 6c 
1 viewed with my Microfcope, difcovering it to be nothing 
bat Scales ^of that fort which cover the infide of the va- 
I gina) lying in a clear thin liquor. 
Afterwards I opened the middle of the Gi?rww on the 
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