But when the semen from the male (in those
animals which emit semen) has entered, it puts into form the purest
part of the female secretion (for the greater part of the catamenia
also is useless and fluid, as is the most fluid part of the male
secretion, i.e. in a single emission, the earlier discharge being in
most cases apt to be infertile rather than the later, having less
vital heat through want of concoction, whereas that which is concocted
is thick and of a more material nature).
If there is no external discharge, either in women or other animals,
on account of there not being much useless and superfluous matter in
the secretion, then the quantity forming within the female
altogether is as much as what is retained within those animals which
have an external discharge; this is put into form by the power of
the male residing in the semen secreted by him, or, as is clearly seen
to happen in some insects, by the part in the female analogous to
the uterus being inserted into the male.
It has been previously stated that the discharge accompanying sexual
pleasure in the female contributes nothing to the embryo. The chief
argument for the opposite view is that what are called bad dreams
occur by night with women as with men; but this is no proof, for the
same thing happens to young men also who do not yet emit semen, and to
those who do emit semen but whose semen is infertile.
It is impossible to conceive without the emission of the male in
union and without the secretion of the corresponding female
material, whether it be discharged externally or whether there is only
enough within the body.
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