HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE, - Horntip

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cured by thefe leaden plates. Galen, in his chapter
upon Health, and in many other places, lays, That he
ufed thefe leaden plates to tame the luftful fallies, and
retrain the nocaurnal pollutions of fome wreftlers ;
and in a priapifm he applies a plaifter to the loins,
made of Role cakes and cold water. Ccelius Aure-
lianus, befides the leaden plates, advifes the ufe of
fponges dipped in cold water : befides thefe, lEtius
not only applies the leaden plates to the loins,
and other coolers, but condemns the lying upon the
back, for fear the parts of the loins ihould be over-
heated, and the diftemper by that means increafed.
To thefe we may add Oribafius and Paulus lEgineta,
both of whom agree in the fame point ; the latter of
whom forbids even diureticks in a gonorrhcea, for fear
of prejudicing the reins, feated in the region of the
loins. Nor was Avicenna ignorant of it, who places
the defeas of coition among the figns of extenuated
and worn-out reins ; and, among other things, he
makes frequent copulation the caufe of imbecility of
the reins, and advifes abftinence from it as the means
of cure. Aaron, a famous phyfician, mentioned by
Rhafes, knew this, who fays—If the ereaior- of the
penis be .languid, the caufe is in the liver and reins.
And