The mysteries of conjugal love reveal'd / written in French by Nicholas de Venette. Done into English [and abridged] by a gentleman.

  • Nicolas Venette
Date:
1712
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Credit: The mysteries of conjugal love reveal'd / written in French by Nicholas de Venette. Done into English [and abridged] by a gentleman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ter next to the Spirits is, that makes us move and feel. The little reddilh Serofity in the moft folid Places, which I have obferved by fqueezing the fub- ftance of the Brain of a dead Body, is nothing but Blood, that began to change into a Nervous Juice. Thus although the Brain be of a cold Temper, asi have fa id, and that it has been made according to Arijlotle, only to qualify the Heat of the Heart, yet it produces Spirits more fubtil and refin’d, than thole of the Heart; for the Arterial Blood mount¬ ing up fwiftly by the motion it receives from the Heart, enters the fubftance of the Brain, in order to receive all it’s fpirituous Impreffions. The Chy- tniJIs and DiJHllers are at the fame Pals when they diftill Brandy or Spirits; for the Spirits of the Wine that is put into the Alembick, arifing by Degrees to the Head, and diftributing afterward by a long Paf- fage in a Veflel where they are receiv’d, would be fharp and difagreable to theTafte, if they were not fweetned in the Serpentine, or Worm, by. the cold- nefs of a Barrel of Water: Thus the Cold gather¬ ing and condenfing the Spirits of the Wine, ren¬ ders them more agreeable. The fame happens to the Brain ; for the Blood dallying hot out of the Heart, and fpringing up¬ wards, enters into the fubftance of tho Brain, which by its Coldnefs condenfes the Spirits, and renders the Blood the molt Subtil, and moft refin’d Liquor in the whole Body. This being thus ftated, there is no Teeming Dif¬ ficulty to give a Reafon, why the Tefticles are the Workers of humane Seed 5 for no body is ignorant of their being cold, becaufe they confift of a clew of Veffels preffed by little Glandules; and if we can be perfwaded, that the Blood is fubtiliz’d by paffing through the Brain, we ought alfo to be¬ lieve, that the fame Blood is reHify’d by penetra¬ ting the Tefticles, and that it becomes a Seminal Spirit, if we may be allow’d the Expreflion. B 3 Ther§
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