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next remarks, that this flogging was only pra&ifed<br />
upon the back and loins, and thinks to deduce the.<br />
caufe from thence. To this purpofe he fhews, that<br />
the Scripture, as well as all antiquity, unanimoufly<br />
attribute to the loins, reins, and fides their particular<br />
offices in the generation of the feed and the effea of<br />
venereal pleafure. And he has indeed quoted a great<br />
many paffages from different writers, and many more<br />
might be brought to the fame purpofe, efpecially from<br />
the poets, unlefs the cafe was already evident. I do<br />
for the fame reafon conclude, that the loins contribute<br />
much to venereal pleafure : but what he afterwards<br />
undertakes to prove, that the feed is firft elaborated<br />
by the reins, fituated in the loins, although he has a<br />
great many famous men, both before and fince his<br />
time, of the fame opinion ; yet, in my judgment, he<br />
has not proved that point. For it is granted at<br />
prefent, by the fearchers into truth, that the blood is<br />
carried by the emulgent arteries to the reins, and from<br />
the reins, by the emulgent veins, into the vena cava,<br />
and from thence returns to the heart ; as alfo that the<br />
fpermatick arteries received the blood from the great<br />
artery, and that the fpermatick veins bring back the<br />
fame from the feminal parts, partly into the vena<br />
cava,
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