A guide to old age, or a cure for the indiscretions of youth / [William Brodum].

  • Brodum, William
Date:
1795
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Credit: A guide to old age, or a cure for the indiscretions of youth / [William Brodum]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ *6 ] own eyes; for they are not three inches in length, and hardly one inch in breadth and thicknefs; though on one fide they are commonly fomewhat bigger than they are on the other. Now, let any one well confider the fmallnels of thefe veflels, and the daily influx of feed into them, which nobody can deny, unlefs he denies likewife, againfl all reafon and experience, the circulation of the blood, the undoubted caufe of fecretion of all humours in the body, whether good or bad: Now let any one confider well the imallftefs of the feminal bags,' that are no ways capable of receiving and con- taining fuch a quantity of feed as may be made in feveii or eight weeks, (I will riot fay In ftveral years) and fo long till a man cohabits with a woman. As thefe things are then incompatible, it is ne- ceflTafy that the femen fhould be carried Off again to the mafs of the blood or the body, f6r the fbafcns already alledged by Tauvry, and others that may be given. Secondly,