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6° 3 inclinable to venery, as well as the other phenomena which my father has brought to prove his opinion. Perhaps, too, it may fometimes happen to thofe who have a hot ftate of blood, and are confequently more prone to luft, that the reins may grow warm by the continual acceffion oi the blood, as is noted by phyficians. When by an error in diet the blood is inflamed, the reins generally fuffer for it, becaufe a greater quantity of blood is continually flowing there than to any other part : fo then, luft does not depend fo much upon the heat of the reins as from the common, caufe, the heat of the blood, and from thence proceeds luft, and the heat of the reins. Farther, I ex- plain the matter thus : By the ftrokes of rods, the blood, as well in the great as fmall veffels in the loins, grows warm, and then in the reins themfelves ; and laffly, from thence the whole mafs of blood—and therefore it flows more hot and in a greater quantity through the feminal arteries, till by the wicked thoughts of thefe wretches, preparing themfelves for a, venereal congrefs, it is turned with a greater degree towards the fpermatick veffels, after the fame manner .a profluvium of the feed is accelerated by a foft bed, or a fupine pofture. 'Tis well known that people 3,vho ride
I 8 z I ride on horfe-back are prone to venery ; and the fame was long ago obferved in the Cento of problems that are publii hed under the name of Ariftotle. The author gives this reafon for it, problem X.—That they are affeaed by the heat and agitation in the fame manner as in coition : which is exa6tly to my meaning ; for the blood in the veffels of the loins grows warm by thefe motions and jolting of the rider; and its motion is quickened through the defcending trunk of the aorta, and fo on to the feminal veffels. Hippocrates, indeed, in his book of Air, Water, and Situation, feems to teftify the contrary, where he fays—That thofe who ride much are rendered too unapt for venery : but that is to be underflood of the continual riding of the Scythians, which proceeds even to weari- nefs, and fo debilitates and relaxes the body, and of confequence fuppreffes the irritation to venery : but that riding which we mention from Ariflotle, which only gently heats the loins, is to be underftood mode- rate. I have no inclination now to go on and ex- amine diftinEtly every point which my father has produced upon the fubjeEt, efpecially fince all that Sennertius has, and what is related by him, Dr. High- more has already happily difcuffed in his Anatomy. In
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