The oeconomy of nature in acute and chronical diseases of the glands ... / Translated under the author's inspection.

  • Richard Russell
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1755
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    the blood, and ftrengthens the nerves; ' Portia aliqua ejus [feminis fcilicet] una cum humore aqueo in corpus reducitur, adeoque fan- guinem ipfum nobilitat: qui partes cmnes nervD~ fas perluens, eafdem magis quam antea foveat, oblediat, et corroborat. And, that the blood is faturated by this means, is very clear from the obfervations which the keepers of parks make on their bucks; when they are in prime health, and there is a redundacy of humors fecreted by all the incentive glands, at the time of rutting. For the fine flavour of the venifon then ceafes, and the fleth is rancid and of a very difagreeable tafie; infomuch, that if bucks are killed late in the feafon, the keep¬ ers tell me they are obliged to avoid cutting any of the lymphatics near the parts of gene¬ ration, otherwife they fhed out a yellow liquor, which is fo difagreeable in tafte and fmell, that it affeds all the parts it touches, and makes the flefli not eatable. At rutting time, nature obferves the following order in fetting to work thefe incen¬ tive glands : firft the teftes begin to be confi- derably enlarged; then the glands of the buck’s throat and neck fwell, and continue in ^Wharton, DeglanduHs, p. 187.
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