The history of generation. Examining the several opinions of divers authors, especially that of Sir Kenelm Digby, in his Discourse of bodies ... To which is joyned a Discourse of the cure of wounds by sympathy ... especially by ... Sir Gilbert Talbots powder / By Nath. Highmore.

Nathaniel Highmore

Date:: 1651

Credit: The history of generation. Examining the several opinions of divers authors, especially that of Sir Kenelm Digby, in his Discourse of bodies ... To which is joyned a Discourse of the cure of wounds by sympathy ... especially by ... Sir Gilbert Talbots powder / By Nath. Highmore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$— == The Hiftory of Generation, int in the examination of that doubt, whe- ] ed ther or no the femal corttributes any f Sperstica particles, Sowardls the for- A we thal phiirue viliat parts | =Natete ath WFeftowed onthe females; I mean tefti- «id cles, (for fothey are, and not glanduls ifor I know not what ule; 3) to which jare derived Arteries and veins, of the _ diame original with thofe diftributed to jche Mafculine ftones : and when in thefe icelticles ye {hall finde fpermlike matter, jand vefiels from them to the womb, When alfo in coition ye thall obferve he fame delight and concuffion as in Males; why thould we fuppofe Nature, iapeyond her cuftome, fhould aboundin iti Papertinities and ufelefte parts. The principles therefore of thefe li- a fing births, arife as the other, from fome Helected Atoms by the tefticles of both, lb thrown into the Matrix of the Female. jWhere being united & mixt by the fer- fencing heat of the womb: the feveral iAtomes fall to their refpective places : d ae the nia (\Pe 11M ( { Ae i i {: 1M if ' 1.$