HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE, - Horntip

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not satisfy the learned, I have nothing to do but to
have recourfe with you to the common caufe, the heat
of the blood, inflamed by flogging of the loins, to in-
creafe the warmth of the reins, and provoke a venereal
a:te. From hence the fupine fituation of the
body contributes to emiffions in fleep, by irritating the
heat of the loins ; from hence the fame parts are pro-
voked to venery by violent fri6tion, a pleafure which
coft a certain gentleman his life at Paris ; laftly, from
hence, we apply cooling medicines to the loins in a
troublefome gonorrhoea. Aeluarius applies planters to
the reins, which itrengthen and yet do not at all heat.
But Oribafius applies plates of lead to the loins, and
in this cafe diftinguifhes the loins from the reins : for,
in his fragment Of proper Diet for all Seafons of the
Year, which was firft publifhed at Bafil, by Albanus
Torinus, 1528, he ferioufly advifes againft cooling the
loins too much, for fear of cooling the reins by that
means. I fhall fay no more of the office of the reins
towards the generating of the feed, becaufe the famous
Wallxus has called it in queftion from the principles
of circulation, and he was a perfon whofe fcholar I
fhall be always proud to own myfelf. That was a
herefy of thofe times, which had many followers, and
many