HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE, - Horntip

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rank bile and odour which is difiufed all over the
body .! molt uncaftrated animals, but is moil per-
ceptible in the reins, especially in adult bodies, but is.
not perceived in the reins of young and tender perfons
before they have convened with females ? He adds,
befides, frorn Oribafius, that the reins are difordered
by a retention of the feed, that the phyficians, in re-
counting the figns of warm reins, mention a propenfity
to venery, luftful dreams, and noccturnal pollutions in
the fleep ; and that the pracctitioners conflantly deduce
the quality of the feed from the conftitution of the
reins : thus, as a ready falacity indicates warm reins,
to a difappetite and want ol inclination that way de-
notes cold reins. And laftly, mat 'it gonorrhcea, he
proves, from Aretxus and Alexander Trallianus, that
remedies are applied for the diminution or alteration
of the feed to the loins near the region of the reins.
To fupport this opinion of Sennertius, we may add
what Pliny fays in his thirty-firft book, chap. 16, That
plates of lead tied to the loins and reins, by their cold
quality, obftniEted the inclination to venery. And he
adds an inflance of Calvas the orator, who, upon the
fight of a woman, ufed to have a natural emiffion,
which grew upon him to a kind of diftemper, and was
cured