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genial influence of returning spring had produced its effect; 
but instead of discovering signs of the restoration of the female 
character, it was evidently more averse. It was now killed and 
examined, the tubes adhered firmly to the loins at the part 
where they were divided, and at that part their canal was obli- 
terated, so that neither quicksilver nor air could be made to 
pass. The ovaries were much smaller than they usually are 
in breeding rabbits ; they appeared to have degenerated from 
their proper character, a circumstance probably the conse- 
quence of that destruction of the harmony of action in these 
parts, which subsists in the healthy state, which is essential to 
the views and intentions of nature, and for want of which har- 
mony, the sexual indifference, approaching to aversion, was 
in this instance so remarkable. 
In the relation of this experiment, it must be remembered, 
that a small portion of each tube was cut out, in order to ob- 
literate the canal with greater certainty. It is not altogether 
indifferent to the present subject to know, whether this apathy 
depended on the removal of that portion, or whether it would 
have happened had there been nothing more than a mere di- 
vision. Nor is it extraneous to inquire, whether a simple divi- 
sion of the tube is sufficient to obliterate it, because less vio- 
lence is offered to the part, and of course the connection will 
be less disturbed. 
EXPERIMENT. 
Being furnished with another rabbit, in high breeding con^ 
dition, I repeated the experiment, by making only a division 
of the tubes ; in other respects every thing was conducted as 
before; The venereal appetite declined as evidently in this as 
