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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1791 Excerpt: ...fluid that continually distills from the glandulous bodies upon the Fallopian tubes. But perhaps this liquor may be a secretion of a different kind, and no way connected with generation. To decide this question, microscopic observations would be necessary; but all experiments are not permitted even to philosophers. I am inclined to think, that, in this liquor, the fame spermatic animal, or moving bodies, would be found as appear in the fluid of the glandulous bodies. bodies. Upon this subject, I might quote the authority of an Italian physician, who had an opportunity of trying this experiment, which is thus related by Valisnieri: 'Aggiugne il lo'dato fig. Bono d'avergli anco veduti (animali spermatici) in questa linfa o siero, diro cosi 'yoluttuoso, che ne tempo dels amorosa zufFa scappa dalle femine libidinose, senza che si po'tefle sospettare che fossero di que' del maschio,' &c. If the fact be genuine, as I have no reason to doubt, it is certain that this liquor is the fame with that contained in the glandulous bodies, and, of course, that it is a real seminal fluid, which escapes through the lacunę of De Graaff, situated about the neck of the uterus. Hence we may. conclude, that the most libidinous females will be the least fruitful, because they throw out of the body that fluid which ought to remain in the uterus for the formation of the foetus. We likewise learn why common prostitutes seldom conceive, and why women in warm climates, who have more ardent desires than those of colder regions, are less fertile. But of this we shall afterwards have occasion to treat. It is natural to imagine that the seminal fluid of either sex should not be fertile, unless when it contains moving bodies. But this point is still undetermined. The Italian physici...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0217733123
- ISBN 13 9780217733120
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages112
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