From embryon births her changeful forms improve, Grow, as they live, and strengthen as they move.
Nor is this unanalogous to what still occurs, as all quadrupeds and mankind in their embryon state are aquatic animals; and thus may be said to resemble gnats and frogs.
Of these none are complete embryon animals, but form anembryon by their reciprocal conjunction.
The wing'd Ichneumon for her embryon young Gores with sharp horn the caterpillar throng.
Join sense unto reason," he cries, "and experiment unto speculation, and so give life unto embryon truths and verities yet in their chaos.
A dialogue between two infants in the womb concerning the state of this world, might handsomely illustrate our ignorance of the next, whereof methinks we yet discourse in Plato's den, and are but embryon philosophers.
At the third month, the embryon has attained the length of two to two and one-half inches.
At the end of the fourth month, the embryon is called a fetus.
At the end of the third week, the embryon is a little less than one-fourth of an inch in length.
If there is a law by which the sex of the developing embryon is determined, it probably has not yet been discovered.
Defects and abnormalities in the development of the embryon produce all degrees of deviation from the typical human form.
Gelatinous as the polypus, the Medusa seems to be an embryon cast away too soon from the bosom of the common mother, torn from the solid base and the association to which the Polypus owes his safety, and launched into adventure.
I ask, in my turn, is the sex of the embryonproduced by accident?
That the embryon is secreted or produced by the male, and not by the conjunction of fluids from both male and female, appears from the analogy of vegetable seeds.
Nor could the production of mules exist, if the stamen or miniature of all the parts of the embryon is previously formed in the male semen, and is only distended by nourishment in the female uterus.
As the cicatricula of these eggs is given by the cock, and is evidently the rudiment of the new animal; we may conclude, that the embryon is produced by the male, and the proper food and nidus by the female.
These organic particles he believes to be in constant activity, till they become mixed in the womb, and then they instantly join and produce an embryon or fetus similar to the two parents.
Rudiment of the embryon a simple living filament, becomes a living ring, and then a living tube.
The embryonis produced by the male, and the nutriment by the female.
The nutriment contained in the ovum as previously prepared for the embryon in the ovary.
In this early formation of the embryon from the irritabilities, sensibilities, and associabilities, and consequent appetencies, the faculty of volition can scarcely be supposed to have had its birth.
Habits of acting and feeling of individuals attend the soul into a future life, and attend the new embryon at the time of its production.
Finally, the following are some passages from the same work, upon the means of preserving the embryon and the fœtal envelopes.
The skeleton of the same embryon requires only about two months.
The following rules on this head must be observed: “The embalming of an embryon of six months, may be accomplished in about the same length of time.
A dialogue between two infants in the womb concerning the state of this world might handsomely illustrate our ignorance of the next, whereof methinks we yet discourse in Plato’s den, and are but embryon philosophers.
Maeterlinck is but an embryon philosopher, one who discourses in Plato’s den.
I would apply this ingenious idea to the generation or production of the embryon or new animal, which partakes so much of the form and propensities of its parent.
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