What are ovaries made of? & what do they produce?

Authors of 17th century midwifery books had many ideas about internal ‘stones’ or ‘testicles.’ John Pechey argued that the round protrusions on ovaries were eggs “analogous to those of Fowl”

#EarlyModernPeriod🩸1/5 Pechey called these bumps/protrusions ‘bladders’ arguing that they were, in fact, eggs: “if you press [the bladders]..nothing will pass out of them; therefore.. they are truly Eggs..the Stones [ovaries]..are indeed an Ovarium, wherein these eggs are nourished” 2/5