“AND FAMILY DISPENSATORY)> 
called preputinm, (a putanda, trom cutting off,) the forefkin » this is that which the 
Jews cut off incircumcifing, This fkin is tied at the root of the glans, by a certain 
ligament, called frenum, the bridle, arifing from a combination of the tendons of the 
mufcles of the yard and a nerve, and terminating in the extréme hollowneds of the 
nut. The two nervous’ bodies, or hollow ligaments, one on each fide, confticute 
the remaining and greateft part of the yard; the whole fabftance whereof being like 
a thick {pungy artery, ftuffed with flehh, Their external fabftance ix long, thick) 
compact, hard, and nervous; their internal fubftance is fpungy, thin, hollow, of a 
net-like texture, framed of innumerable twigs of veins and’ arteries, of a darle red 
colour, inclining to black, and filled with a great abundance of black blood, very 
full of fpirits, which, waxing hot, caufes a diftention'and erection of the yard. Thefe 
two bodies (where they are thick and round) {pring from ‘the lower parts of the 
fhare-bone, or hip-bones, to which they are ftrongly tied with two Tigaments: In 
their beginnings they’ keep fome diftance, being feparate one from anorher, almof 
hke a Y, that the urethra may pafs between them; but, whet they céafé to remain 
perfectly feparate, viz. when they come to the joining at the fhare-bone, they’ lofe 
near a third part of their nervous fubftance; yet they ftill remain diftin® by the 
coming between of a fingle' membranous partition, called /eptum lucidum. This 
membrane is white, thin, tranfparent, and full of nervous fibres; it arifes from the 
upper part of the commiffure of the os pubis, and upholds the faid two lateral liga- 
ments, and the urethra, as a ftay, the like of which is alfo found in women. The 
yard has ali forts of veffels, as veins, 1. external, running up and down in the fin, 
from the pudenda ; 2. internal ones, from the vena hypogaftrice, which are fpread 
thraugly its whole body. °It has arteries, two internal remarkable ones, arifing from 
_ the hypogattriea, which are inferted into the beginning of the growing together of | 
thetwo nervous bodies, which are feattered up and down according to the length of — 
the part: but in the middle, where the feptum lucidum is thinneft, they fend 
branches through the fpaces of the fibres, the right artery, into the left nervous body, 
and the left into the'right, carrying {pirits and blood to fill up, ereét, and nourifh, 
themfelves: through ‘all’ parts of the yard, both internal and external afcending 
through the middle of the forked divifion, they fpread themfelves ineo the mufeles, 
the-whole body of the’yard, and the glans, that there might be an exquifice fenfe 
and deleétation. It has alfo four mufcles, two ereCtors, and two ac clerators Of 
ejaculators, ander which mufeles lie hid the two nervous bodies. 
TD ye fiends WARY i in women are the fame with thofe in apo | ind a cove 
their number, nature, original, and office, but they differ from th 
