HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE, - Horntip

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the cooling of the back and fleeping upon cold leaves
diminifhes that appetite, fo heat and warmth wonder-
fully increafe it.
From all which I draw this confequence, that them
loins in general, and the parts they confift of, contri-
bute chiefly to venery, and principally their veins and
arteries, as being the canals of thofe fluid fpirits, which
is the opinion of Cagnatus. But that the grand inftru-
ment of all this is the parenchyma of the reins, by
which the feed firft begins to be elaborated ; and that
it is perfeEted, and acquires an equable confiftence, in
its defcent through the other feminal veffels ; which,
as it was Sennertius's opinion, fo it is mine. And yet
what Nemifius, Ifidorus, Matthmus, and Laurenbergius
have obferved, is to the purpofe, that there is a kind of
faltnefs and ferous matter communicated together
with the feed, from the reins to the tefticles, to pro-
voke the titillation, and fill up the dunghill (adim-
platOrari), which very word Papius, the grammarian,
ufes in his vocabulary.
I further conclude, that ftripes upon the back and
loins, as parts appropriated for the generating of the
feed,