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Show Bookl. Part er. BOOk 1' Part 1V" 0f [/99 Ovaries or Teflir/cf 0f ll/Eire‘nf 39 places between the Velicles, the Tunicles are Contracted makino as it w me a , a kind of Wrinkles or Filfures in their Surfaces. CHAP. The Telticles of Women have great difference according to feveral Ages and Confiiturions; in young Plethorick Bodies they are muchlaroer thankin old XX. or Heé‘tick Bodies, by reafon the Velicles are more diflended aas replenilhed with Seminal Liquor, which is very deficient in Antientjand Emaciated Bodies; and in the molt Succulent VVomen in their greatelt Maturit they have much lefs Dimenfrons than thofe of Males,and have a more flabbyr foft Compage in reference to the Veficles of Liquor Which give way to the iouch 0f the ‘Te/Hcler or Owner of Women. of the Fingers Comprelling them. in: rapid" °"""""" H e Tel'cicles of Women, fo fiyled by the Antients, and Ovaries by the Modern Philofophers, are fmall in Bulk but great in Virtue, as Containing priwa wine flaming, as they are the Principles of Generation, and Th: Mail, are two Caskets of pretious Stones, which are fluid in their firfl: Origen and "m" "m" Principle, and are afterward Concreted into many parts made up of different more folid Subftances; or they may be flyled Curious Minute Cellars, containing within them many {inall Bottles, or Veficles of Liquor of Life, as giving the firlt matter and rudiments of Being and Life to the bell of Ani. mals. Thefe choice parts afford many Notices in reference to their fituation, flaape, lize, fnbftance, coats, and ufe, of which we will treat in the fame method as they are propounded. The Tef'ticles of VVomen have a different lituation from thofe of Men, m frtuation 212:" 0‘" which are placed in an Outlet of the Body, but are feated in VVomen in a fmall allodgment (called the @elwir) belonging to the lowell: apartiments of the Body, within the Belly, two Fingers breadth from the bottom of the Theeomfi- \Vomb, to whofe {ides they are affixed by the interpolition of the Oriduéts, 5:32?" 0‘ better known by the Name of Tube Fallopianaa, and on the other hand by the Preparing Vt iii-ls,and by the Mediation of the Membranes encompafling the Spermarick \"ellels 3 they are tied to the Perilormum about the Region of‘ the Oil/i071, and feem to obferve the fame hight with the bottom of the \Vomb, in Maids ; and in Women with Child they are feared much lower, when the Womb is highly diftended by the bulk of the Farm. Thefe Telticles are difcriminated from thofe of Men, as being naked of .m 0mm itiftiiiiicff the Cremafter Mulcles, which are Attendants of the Tefticlcs of Men, as Mulcles. hanging upon them, and are drawn upward by their Contraction, when the fPenis is erected. They are lodged within the circumference of the lowelt Apartiments to preferve them from the coldnefs of the Air, and that they may be cherilhed with the more inward heat of the Body, as alfo are feared near the Werm, that the Impregnated 072:2 might have a more ready rccourfe by the Oviduéts to the bofom of the \Vornb, as their Confervativc and place 0f perfection, in Which the parts of the Body are molt wonderfully formed in Number, \Veight, and Meafure. The Ttlticles of \Vomen are endued with a fhape different from thofe Thtfigurcnf ""0"" of iVlen, which are more round and Oval, and the other more flattilh, and in their lower Region are fomewhat Convex and have a. Semi-Oval Figure, and in their upper part are more plain, and being fevered from their Bloodwefl'els and Ligaments, fcein to be fur-nillicd with a flattifli half Oval Fi rme. SGThC Surface 0f \VOmCHSchticles is more uneven than Mens, as having Tacoma, ifffifil‘ffr: rcbr 2C1 c! - divers fmall protuberances feated in the hdcmbrane proceeding from the f g [P the Coats 0‘ s hi; i LlCS , '5": 811d "I [01116 The Teftrcles of VVOmen have a thinner Clothing, as encircled with fewer Coats than thofe of Men, as they are immured within the thicker walls of the lowefl Apartiments, in which they are ftrongly guarded within Bon Confines7 and fecured againlt outward Alfiults. Y Tic MM" refill/0mm 3;:‘Sic‘llg': "M" Mini The Ovaries are encompalfed with a double Coat, which feern but one b realon they are f0 clofely affixed to each other by the interpolition of lin: finall Ligaments or Membranes. The outward and firfl Integument is fomewhat thicker than the other and Thccxrcmal derived from the Rim of the Belly, which is a common Parent of an out- gin-om: ward Coat invefting all the szcera contained in the lowell: Venter. ‘ mm The fccond and more inward Tunicle of the Ovaries is more fine then The inward ' the other and is a curious Contexture of many Nervous Fibres f0 clofely in- 532mm" terw0ven, that they feern to be one entire piece, enwraping the Vefieles of mi Seminal Liquor; thcfe Coats are inftituted by Nature to preferve the Repofitories of Genital Juyce from Laceration. The Teftrcles being denuded from thefe Coats, a white foft Subfiance is TheSubllanm preltnted to our Eyes of a different nature from that of men (Which accord- mm Tm" ing to I, earned aleGraaf) is chiefly made up of many Seminal Veffels dc" mutually conjoyned, which being drawn out, exceed in length forty Dumb Ells, as the fame Learned Author affirmed. Thefe Veflels cannot be an where difcovered in the Teflicles of Women, which have another and 7 no lefs admirable Structure. . The Ovaries of VVomen, as to their Subliance, are a rare Compofition integrated of many Blood-veflels, Nerves, Lymphzduéts, Glands Velicle; ' of thin clear Liquor. . The Blood-velfels belonging to thefe parts, are the Preparing or Sperma- Theprepa. tick Arteries and Verns 'l‘, which are Minilterial to the \ eficles. The Ar- "UTE WM" teries do take their progrefs in greater Gyres than thofe of Men which lhi'x‘li‘l" notwithl'randing have greater length by reafon they Expatiate themfelves in- 2:3]: 0"to the Teflicles feared without the Cavity of the loweft Apartiment in the bofom of the Scrotum. And I humbly conceive thefe Arteries have many Flexures in VVomen to hinder the over-hafty motion of the Blood into Fhe Teflicles. Tie, Divarication of the F ' ' ' ' ' i ‘ from that of Males, in whom[iiirexryiad izkpaAriiflrlier Of which mum 6 ljes,ls of . , ' itoflthv‘d‘bfgieh dIflW-‘rént [cliffc‘fi'ffj‘ One and the chief palleth into the Tel'trcle, and the Other as the leaft goeth to M‘" ""45 W°‘ the Epydidimides: In Women the firft branch is carried into the 7/;emr and mm. Alfocrates fo with the Hypogaltrick Arteries, that no Eye can difcover iheir Terminations to be difiinét ; whereupon no man (faith Learned de Graaf) can certainly affirm that the Tefticles of Women do receive Blood immediately from the Spermatrck or from the Hypogalirick Arteries, which before they I\'I m m m m m m tenni- |