HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE, - Horntip

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time, difcover the caufe why ftrokes and (tripes,
infliEted on the loins, are incentives to luft. Cagnatus,
for his part, and Montuus, who inclines to his opinion,
attribute the whole bufinefs to the loins, as confifting
of thofc parts we were kilt now reciting—that is, the
vertebra; mufcles, reins, veins, arteries, and nerves.
However, he makes the feminal veins and arteries the
chief agents as being the part that affords the materials
for the feed, and contain in themfelves, and fend down
to the teflicles, that whitifh fluid, which either a6tually
is, or will foon be, worked into feed ; and he affirms,
that the defire of ejeaing- the feed is excited by the
fwelling of this fluid in the veins and arteries, and
from whence noaurnal pollutions are caufed, efpeci-
ally in !Lich perfons whofe veffels are extraordinarily
heated by lying upon their backs. Bartholomus
Montagnana, and Nemefius, the philosopher, affign
the whole operation to the reins, a part of the loins,
which is agreed to by Matthus and Garyopontus, a
Latin phyfician among the moderns. And very lately
the famous Sennertius, once my preceptor (and who,
while he lived, my much refpe&ed friend), Petrus
Laurenbergius, and Cafper Hoffman are of the fame
opinion, and yet they do not all explain the matter
after