dtyed fo faft; that I could iee ooly a piece of them. The 
little Creature had no blood particles about it. 
From all the preceding Obfervations , I am more 
and more confirmed, that the fuppoled Ovariums are 
mily Inftrumentsforj:he disburthening the parts therea* 
bout; :for if they were tru^e Qvaruwis^ the Eggs would 
firft be iHtie when the Apimals are young grow 
bigger 6c bigger againft the time that the Animals come 
to procreate. As it is in Birds that lay Eggs, Jhat I 
might laiisfy my lelf and^P;thers herein , L exammed 
Ca^lyesof ^ $■> and^, iwepks old^ and fliewe4 '(i^i the 
piefeoce of 4. rPhyfici^uf) r chs Eggs as big as. il:'4:hey:ihad 
been of a tullj grown: Gow,^ for they ;were like peas. 
Again I made appear rMt the Eggs in a fucking 
LambjAvei^e -a . ijig and bigger th^n iii a iuli grown Sheepi 
and the Gjanaulous parts a:nd ^ter b^'adders as many. 
, I have been ojfteiV£eon^d(i^rir]ig, wh^tnef-the ^ opening 
ok \h^'TiiJ^a^w\^^ 
fomemoifture a^ the tjime theU^cr^^^ tsciofed, and which 
cannot getthro' x\\^ VagmGi, for I have foiiie times found 
in the thin part of theT^^^ near the Opening, a white 
fluff confifting of tranfparenc Globules a little bigger 
then a blood globule. 
There lately came to mv hand a Book called ColleBa-" 
nea Medico Thyjica^ in which Cent, f, pag. 8. are fome 
words to this purpofe. But its moji Jurprtjing what the 
learned Boutekoe relates from the Curious Leeuwenhoec^^ 
that the Sper in of Men is full of [mall Children^ and Jo the 
Sperm of other jinimals according to their kind. 
But this is a miftake, for I have only faid its full of A- 
nimals, or Worms , with long Tails , whofe figure I 
have often fliewn. For as it is not proper to <ay, that 
Worms iwimming in the water are flying Infed:s, tho' 
they come from them i or to fay that the Kernel of an 
Apple is a tree, tho' a tree comes from iti fo its no lefs 
improper to fay, that the Worms in Mens Seed are Chii- 
dren, tho' Children come from them. Its^ 
