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Likewife I believe, that what is called frigidity ia 
fomemen, is either a want ('in them) ot the AnimaliaSe' 
minis ^ or a weaknefs in the Animals which renders them 
unable to live long in the Womb. And to this purpofe I 
was lately informed of a Perfon, who tho' he had former- 
ly had Children, wanted now the Animalia Ssminis, 
which might be the realon of the prefent defed. 
If this be true then, that a Fitttij is an Animal Seminis 
Mdfculi , we may rejed: the Vulgar Opinion, that a Con- 
ception comes to be Male or Female according to the 
prevalency of one Seed above the other, fince the Ani- 
malia Seminis zvQ themfelves ot both Sexes. 
In the beginning of Frebuary I received from a 
Butcher, the i;/^r//j- of a Sheep, which had taken the Ram 
17 days before (as they faid) I found in one of the Cornua 
thereof, a fmall body wrapt up in Membranes of a red 
fiefliy colour. But being not able to diftinguifh its figure, 
tho' I put it in a Glafs Tube about\the thicknefsof a goos 
quill, together with Oyl of Turpentine; I took it out of 
the Glafs again, and as it lay round, I gently ftretcht it 
out in length, at which time I plainly faw the back bone, 
likewife blood VefTels lying thereby, and fending forth 
feveral branches, alfo in 2 diftind: places the Medulla Spi^ 
nalis lying in the Back bone. And in the head, I faw 
not only the MaxilUhviX, the Mufcles that covered them, 
aifd the VefTels lying in them, tho they were not yet red 
and lookt like finews. Likewife the Brain, and the fmall 
Uood Veffels therein, the Eys that were about the bignefs 
of a courfe Sand, but as clear as Chriftall; I opened the 
Belly and took out feverall pieces of the Bowels, which 
were tranfparent, and about the fize of a fmall hair. I 
law feverall firings of j3e(h,which I took to be the Mufcles: 
Avhen I caft my Ey on the Brcafl to fee the Ribbs, I found 
the place fo full of blood veffels, that there was nothing 
elfe to be taken notice of. 
This whole Animal I judged to be no bigger then Jth 
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