C 479 ) 
in relation to the FecfM b for they contain not only the D- 
catricula with its Amnion and theColIiqftamentum t which\s 
the immediate nourifhment of the Foetus , but alfo the 
materials which are to be converted into that CoBiqua- 
menium ,> Co that the F&tus fpreads forth its roots no 
farther than into the white and yolk of the Egg, from 
whence it derives all its nourifhment. Now that an 
Animalcle cannot come forward without fome fuch pro- 
per Nidus, Mr. Leewenkoeck, will not readily deny 5 for 
if there were nothing needful but their being thrown 
into the Uterus, I do not fee why many hundreds of 
themfhould not cotne forward at once 5 for as to what 
Mr. Leewenhoeck fays, that one of them would bedwarf 
and choak the reft, this might fall out in procefs of 
time : but at firft I do not fee why many of them (hould 
not grow together, whilft (battered in fo large a Field : 
( and yet no fuch thing is obferved ) if there were not 
an abfolute neceffity of a Cicatricula for their growth 
and thriving. Now 2 # That this Cicatricula is not 
originally in %)tero i feems evident from the frequent 
Conceptions which have been found extra Vterumz 
Such as the Child which continued twenty fix years in 
the Woman of Thol<mfe y $ Belly, mentioned Numb. 139, 
of the Phil.Tranf. And the little JF^/Yoiind in the 
Abdomen de St. Mere, together with the Tefticle torn 
and full of clotted Blood recorded Numb. 1 50. both 
taken out of the Journals des Scavans : Such alfo feem 
to be the Fmus in the Abdomen of the Woman of Co- 
penhagen, mentioned in the Nouvelles des Lettres, for Sept. 
85. pag. 996. all the Members of which were eafily to 
be felt thro the Skin of the Belly, and which (he had 
carried in her Belly for four Years 5 And the (even Years 
Gravidation related by Dr. Cole, Numb. 172. of the 
Tranfaff.Thzt thefe two were undoubtedly extra Vterum 
is uncertain, becaufe the laft was not opened after her 
death, and the former may be yet ftill alive. Now grant- 
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