The works of Aristotle : in four parts. Containing I. His complete master-piece ... II. His complete and experienced midwife ... III. His book of problems ... IV. HIs last legacy / [Aristotle].

Aristotle

Date:: 1777

Credit: The works of Aristotle : in four parts. Containing I. His complete master-piece ... II. His complete and experienced midwife ... III. His book of problems ... IV. HIs last legacy / [Aristotle]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$ARISTOTLE’ MASTER PT 8: Aa The two nervous Boies: s the. Steptum ; ; the ees ae 3 hands; ; the Mufcles; dad the Veffels: of each of thet dif _ tin@ly; in the order I have placed them;: and, firft, of = _ The two nervous Bodies.. 'Thefe: are walled fo fron their © being. furrounded with a thick, white, nervous membrane, rf tl ough: their inward fubftance is fpongy, as confifting prin= eipally of veins, arteries, and nervous fibres, interwoven | like a net. And nature has fo ordered it, that when the | nerves are filled with animal fpirits, and the arteries with’ . _ Hot and {pirituous blood; then the yard is diftended, and © Becomes ereét; when the: flux of f{pirits ceafes,. then the 4 + blood and the remaining {pirits are abforded, or fucked up eine veins, and fo the Penis becomes limber and ‘flaggy. a orga 1 tee ‘eond: internal part is the Septum Lucidum, and — M4 this i is. in’ fubftance: white and nervous, or finewy, and its . office is to eee the two lateral or fide Hasoiy and the Urethra. ; 3. The third is: the Utethia! sohiich is only: the chanuel by which both the feed and the urine are conveyed out; it is j , loofe, thick and finewy, like that of the t begins at the neck of the bladder, but — thence, only is joined to it, and fo pro- lands. It‘ has three holes in the beginning, © the largeft ce reof is in the midft, which receives the urine _ “into it: The other two are cae ncoeiyine the feed from | each feminal veffel. E ay 4. The fourth is the Glens ‘which i is at the ane a the Penis; covered with a very thin membrane, by reafon of a Praputium or Forefkin, which in fome covers the top of the yard quite clofe, in others not; and by its moving up and— _ down in the at of copulation brings pleafure both to the | manand’woman. The extreme part ok this cover, which 1 gall Preputium, and which is fo called a preputando, from tt ie off, as the Jews were commanded to cut it off on — 1e eighth day. The ligament, by which it is fattened to. the glands, i is called Frenum, orthe Bridle. ara ok ge The fifth thing i is the Mufcles, ‘and thefe are fou ‘number, two’ being placed on each fide. : (which are inflrumente of voluntary motion, and rt, of the’ body can move itfelf) confit 'o: ae as | jake up-their body ; of Nerves for the | Vein et Aber: Sia} Benes ; and of a Men r ee kg Se ee en ee See ae$