Lanterna Rally

Author: St. Louis Medical Society

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9781230005812

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ...typical male or female child. If two beings, male or female, who are formed by the union of the sperm and germ elements of opposite sides, should marry, their offspring, if conceived after the same manner, will show these marked characteristics in a much greater degree. Examples of these are seen every day in masculine women and feminine men. It is seenmanifested in some trait, qualities, deportment appearance, manner, etc. It is possible, however (as in the cases cited above in which I refer to the one from the Russian religious sect as being possible, and the case of the dog with one testicle, the father of a male and female dog), for a man, from whom one testicle has been removed, to beget a child b the discharge of zoosperms from the vas eferens or vesicula seminalis of the side corresponding to the testicle extracted. The question may arise what becomes of the su erabundance of zoosperms (male and female from which some unite with the ovum to determine the sex of the future being. So far as investigation has gone, it is generally conceded that there is always a superfluity of the zoosperms by means of which the ovum is impregnated and those that are unessential, are absorbed or disap. ear, in what manner is not, as yet, known. believe, however, that the sex is determined by the zoosperms passing into the ovum through mecropyles or stomata which unite with the germinal spot, and those have the preference which possess the greater affinity for the product of the corresponding ovary. In all probability one zoosperm suflicient. Molecular union ensues from which the future being is evolved. Fora number of years I have made many observations in different families seeking after facts pertinent to this subject, not only in regard to the...