On sterility in the male and female : its causes and treatment / By the Chevalier V. Mondat ... Tr. from the 5th French ed.

  • Vincent-Marie Mondat
Date:
1844
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Credit: On sterility in the male and female : its causes and treatment / By the Chevalier V. Mondat ... Tr. from the 5th French ed. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Steno (Diss, 'piscium)^ Malpighi (de Gener. pull, in ovo.)f Harvey {de Genet, ovi.), Vallisniery {de Genit. animal.), Haller {Physiology), and Bonnet {Sepul- chret. anet.), who have adopted it, regard the vesicles in the ovaries as so many ova, which contain all the lineaments of the new being, and which require only the contact of the semen to receive life. Bonnet thinks that these germes pre-existed in the ovaries since the commencement of the world, boxed in one within another, and developing themselves successively by the effect of generation ; but this opinion which finds but few partisans except in the Italian schools, is now nearly abandoned. Some naturalists have also thought they found in the male semen animalcules, such as are seen in the cut (fig. 13), which by their development might be- [Fig. 13.] 1. Animalcules of a man, taken from the vas deferens immediatelj after death. 2. Seminal granules. 3. A bundle of animalctiles as group- ed together in the testicle. 4. Seminal globule. 5. Same surrounded by a cyst or bag.
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