The generative organs, considered anatomically, physically, and philosophically / a posthumous work of Emanuel Swedenborg ; translated from the Latin by James John Garth Wilkinson.
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- 1852
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Credit: The generative organs, considered anatomically, physically, and philosophically / a posthumous work of Emanuel Swedenborg ; translated from the Latin by James John Garth Wilkinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![reason why these members have so close an intercourse with each other, and the penis is erected when the bladder becomes distended, particularly in the night: also why the urine is held while the faeces are discharged ; and why both these evacuations are suspended when the semen is emitted. The student will best inform himself respecting this connection by dissection and plates : we shall have occasion to recur to it in the sequel. This is the reason why the several genital members are excited to their performances immediately and mediately according to the con- nexion of the parts,—naturally in coition, artificially or lascivi- ously whenever this band or general frcenum under the orifice of the urethra, or in the peritonceum itself, is softly handled or stroked. For on both hands the effect of the titillation is pro- pagated from the circumferences to the centres, that is to say, to the spermatic vessels, testicles, vasa deferentia, vesiculse semi- nales, prostate glands, and urethra ; which could not be the case were it not for the scrotum and the septum thereof, which won- derfully conjoins all the parts, and through a double gyre, externa] as well as internal, carries up to those centres the whole caress and tremble of the touch. By virtue of this gyre and connexion, there is not a part but at once feels a like titillation calling it into play. Moreover, the scrotum serves not only for connecting the several generative members, but also for guarding and conserving them against all injury and loss from whatever cause, extrinsic or intrinsic. Particu- larly does it thus mitiister to the testicles, ivhich are the chief- tains of the band, and do the principal work. For the scrotum is as a cushion to the testicles, irrigates them moreover with plea- sant humor, and keeps them uniformly safe in their natural state, and in their proper places. It protects them, that is to say, against heat, cold, knocks, rubbing against the adjacent parts and tunics, &c. And to secure their indemnity, they re- quire to be always circumfused with warmth and moisture, like the rest of the abdominal and thoracic viscera; and like the brains, &c., of which we have already spoken. Moreover, the dartos or muscle of the scrotum, by a kind of external and gene- ral aid consequent upon the contraction of its fibres, raises the tes- ticles into the natural situation; thereby enabling the blood of the spermatic vessels, and also the spirit of the fibres, to flow in as](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21903542_0063.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
