Annals of medical history . lato, evenif the accoucheur fails to grasp it. Aris-totle limits himself to saying that thefemale produces the materialof the embryo and the maledetermines its form. Thatdoes not help us muchTell me, has no oneseen Nature at work,as sculptors are seenmaking figures fromclay or from marbleor from wood? Evbemer c—Thesculptor works inthe open but Na-ture in the that we knewup till now was thatthe fluid is alwaysspent by the malewhen he copulates,but that it is some-times missing inwomen. But now agreat English phys-icist, aided by cer-tain Italians, has substi
Annals of medical history . lato, evenif the accoucheur fails to grasp it. Aris-totle limits himself to saying that thefemale produces the materialof the embryo and the maledetermines its form. Thatdoes not help us muchTell me, has no oneseen Nature at work,as sculptors are seenmaking figures fromclay or from marbleor from wood? Evbemer c—Thesculptor works inthe open but Na-ture in the that we knewup till now was thatthe fluid is alwaysspent by the malewhen he copulates,but that it is some-times missing inwomen. But now agreat English phys-icist, aided by cer-tain Italians, has substituted eggs forthe two generating fluids. This gnatdissector, Harvey, is more credible fromthe fact that he has seen the bloodcirculate; something which Hippocratesnever saw and Aristotle never sus-pected. He dissected over one thousandquadruped mothers who had received themale fluid but when he had examinedInns eggs, be conceived the idea thaieverything originates in an egg; the differ-ence between birds and other species. being that the former set and the latter donot. A woman is a white hen in Europe,and a black one in Africa. Collier ate—-Then the mystery is clearedup! Evhemere—Not at all. Recently all hasbeen changed again. We do not come froman egg after all. It seems that a Batavian(Leeuwenhoek) has, with the microscope,seen in the seminal fluid of men a race oflittle beings, fully formed and runningabout with great activity. Manycurious men and women havesince tried the same experi-ment and become persua-ded that the question ofgeneration is thought they sawlittle men in the semenof their fathers. Butu nfortu nately, thevery activity withwhich the little menswam has discreditedthem. How could menwho ran about so ac-tively in a drop of liq-uid be expected to re-main for nine monthsalmost motionless irtheir mothers womb? M \DAME DC itician and friend of Voltaire. Voltaire was forcedto leave the question theories, he said in a letter to
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