16 CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
Firlt; of the genitals of men:—The firft thing to be confidered is, that which 
anatomifts call va/a preparentia, or preparing veffels, which bring blood and vital — 
{pirits to the tefticles ; they are four in number, and before they come to the tefticles 
- they make a curious implication, intertexture, or twifting, the one with the other, 
the arteries into the veins, and the veins into the arteries, which phyficians call corpus 
varicofum ; fome call it pompiniformis : this interweaving reacheth down even into the 
fubftance of them; their ufe is to mix the blood and vital {pirit together, re 
may have a fit matter to work on. 
The tefticles are of a white, foft, and clay: fubftance, full of fmall veins and ar- 
teries; or elfe, when humours flow to them, they could not fwell to fuch a bignefs: 
their form is oval; of their bignefs few are ignorant. Each tefticle hath a mufele, 
which the learned call cremafter, which ferveth to pull them up in the aét of genera- 
‘tion, as its name in the Greek fignifieth, that fo the veffels, being ges | 
better avoid the feed. 
The feed being thoroughly connnted by the tefticles, there are two tial fall 
pipes called va/a deferentia : they are alfo called {permatic pores: their office is to 
carry the feed to the feminary vefiels, which are to keep it till need requireth its ex- 
pulfion. From the ftones they arife very near to the preparing veffels into thecavity 
of the belly ; then, going back again, they turn to the back fide of the bladder, be- 
tween it and the right gut, where they are joined to the feminal veffels, which are foft 
and fpongy, fomewhat like kernels, through which paffeth the urethra, or common 
-paffage in the yard both for feed and urine. 
_ Hiftories make mention, and experience evinceth, that fome are pase" 
ticles, fome with one. Philip, Landgrave of Heffia, had three ; he was fo full of feed, 
and prone to venerous actions, that his wife could not fuffer him fo often as necef- 
fity urged him to it, he otherwife being chafte and honeft; he, rane -alaaaaisheed 
_. the priefts, with the confent of his wife, took a concubine. 
_. It is unneceffary for me here to defcribe the yard, and all the parts thereof, asthei 
er salt office, texture, fympathy, &c. will hereafter be more particularly treated of in 
_ the anatomical analyfis , in this place therefore I only mean to give a brief couch of 
the moft confiderable parts. 
I now come to the generative parts of women; and firft of the clytoris, whickias 
_ finewy hard body, much like the yard of a man, and fuffers ereétion and fallingy 
caufeth Tut i in women, and giveth delight in copulation: Avicenna calieth it § the 
wand, or albathara ; and Albucafis calleth it sentiga and Fallopious faith, that 
this hath fomnetimes g grown fo big, that \ women would copulate with others like men. 
This obferve; that the paflage of the urine is not through the neck of the wor bs 
