Note 303 — VARIOUS QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE FOREGOING SUBJECTS, ELUCIDATED BY PHYSIOLOGICAL RESEARCHES.

We wish to be perfectly understood upon this point; no instance of impregnation has ever occurred, where the virile member has not come into actual contact with the Labia; we are not so credulous as to believe with Averroes the case of the woman that conceived in a bath, by attracting the sperm of a man admitted to bathe near her; nor the story of the daughters of Lot, who were impregnated by their sleeping father, or conceived by seminal pollution received at a distance from him.