HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE, - Horntip

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cava, and partly into the emulgent vein—which
motion of the blood is plainly proved by the con-
ilruaion of the valves in the veins. Now, from hence
it is evident that nothing defcends from the reins to
the teflicles through the veffels. In the meantime it
remains true that warm loins contribute to the work
of Venus, and cold ones obftruEt it ; and that the
phyficians rightly apply warm things to the loins for
the exciting of lull, and cold things for the fuppreffing
it : for, as my father has rightly obferved from Cag-
natus and Montuus, there are larger veffels placed in
-the loins/in which, if the blood grows warm, it mull
neceffarily flow warmer down thro' the fpermatick
-artery, and difpofe the feminal matter, eafily irritable,
into a flate of heat and fervency. Next, as to the
reins, this is my opinion—If they are more than ordi-
narily heated, a greater degree of heat will be com-
municated to the blood in its return through the
emulgent veins ; and fince the blood is continually
flowing to the reins, and back again, a greater heat
may be communicated from the reins to the whole
mars of blood, from whence the blood will defcend
warmer through the fpermatick arteries. From hence
it may be explained why they who have hot veins are
inclinable