In the melt of a living cod there are such numbers of those animalcules said to be found in the semen of all male animals, that in a drop of its juice no larger than a grain of sand, there are contained more than 10,000 of them; and considering how many such quantities there are in the whole melt of one such fish, it is not incredible, that there are more animals in one melt of it than there are living men at once time upon the face of the earth.