Miscellanea Curiosa.

Uterus , I do not see why many hundreds of them should not come forward at once; for as to what Mr. Leewenhoeck says, that one of them would be-dwarf and choak the rest; this might fall out in process of time: But at first I do not see why many of them should not grow together, whilst scatter'd in so large a Field (and yet no such thing is observed) if there were not an absolute necessity of a Cicatricula for their growth and thriving. Now, 2. That this Cicatricula is not originally in Utero , seems evident from the frequent Conceptions which have been found extra Uterum : Such as the Child which continued Twenty six Years in the Woman of Tholouse 's Belly, mention'd Numb. 139. of the Philos. Trans. And the little Fœtus found in the Abdomen de St. Mere , together with the Testicle torn and full of clotted Blood, recorded Numb. 150. both taken out of the Journals des Savans : Such also seem to be the Fœtus in the Abdomen of the Woman of Copenhagen , mention'd in the Nouvelles des Lettres , for Sept. 85. pag. 996. all the Members of which were easily to be felt through the Skin of the Belly, and which she had carried in her Belly for four Years; and the seven Years Gravidation, related by Dr. Cole , Numb. 172. of the Transact. That these two were undoubtedly extra Uterum , is uncertain, because the last was not open'd after her death, and the former may be yet still alive. Now granting once the necessity of a proper Nidus , for the formation of an Animalcle into the Animal of its respective kind; these Observations make it probable, that the Testes are the Ovaria appropriated for this use; for tho' the Animalcles coming thither in such Cases may seem to be extraordinary, and that usually the Impregnation is in Utero ; yet it may be collected from hence, that the Cicatriculæ or Ova to be impregnated, are in