Note 42 — A COMMENTARY UPON THE PRECEDING OBJECTS OF INQUIRY: (continued 2)
Reading edition
In the year 1788, Blumenbach shewed that corpora lutea may exist in the ovaries of virgins (Comment. Soc. Reg. Scient. Gotting. vol. ix.) Cuvier has also noticed the appearance of cicatrices in the ovaria of women who had never known any intercourse with the male.