HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE, - Horntip

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manner as a (harp punaure under the fkin makes an
itching, and in the fame degree as the confiftence of
the tefticle is fofter than the (kin itfelf, they fo much
the more, when ftimulated by that falt pungency,
raife a furious defire of emitting the feed. The words
of Ifidorus, before cited, make for the fame purpofe.
Matthxus's opinion is much the fame, only he attri-
butes more to the left rein than to the right : for, lays
he, the left feminal vein, fituated in the emulgent,
near the left rein, furnifhes a blood diluted with a
good deal of ferous falt, to ra.ife and ftimulate the
parts to the aft of generation. Laurenbergius affirms
that the reins in general contribute to generation :
but in the difputation, before cited, he explains him-
felf much after the fame manner as Garyopontus does,
when he fays, The reins are by nature mufcular, and
have nerves planted in their cavities, which contain
the generative feed. So that he attributes the forma-
tive power of the feed to the reins, and in fuch a
manner as to believe that it is elaborated and con-
tained in them. Sennertius is of the fame opinion,
though he founds it on other reafons, and explains
himfelf more clearly, and with better evidence from
anatomical infpe&ion than Garyopontus, who does
not