HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE, - Horntip

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any other reafon for recommending the reins of
animals, efpecially thofe of the he-goat, as provoca-
tives to copulation, or that ZEtius should prefcribe the
parts above the reins as a charm and incentive to lull:,
but becaufe they have fome analogy and fimilitude
with human reins, for which reafon they are fuppofed
-to affift them, and excite them to perform the office of
generation.* For this reafon warm unguents, among
other medicines, are ufually prefcribed to such perfons,
who are lefs ready in venereal affairs, and thofe to be
applied not only to the privities, but to the region of
-the reins as alfo ftrong diureticks, as cantharides,
and the pofture of lying upon the back, that by thefe
methods the loins may be warmed, and the feed
quickened in its motion to the tefticles, and fo cold
conftitutions become fired and raifed to venery. From
whence Rhafes, in his twelfth book, fays—As often as
the loins are chafed with warm medicinie, the penis
will fwell, and be extended in ereaion, And Mafib
the Arabian, in the fame author, fays—That the heat
of the back affifts luxury (that it excites luft), and as
* This depends upon the old exploded maxim of the philofo-
-pliers and naturalifis, Similis fimili prude'.
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