88  CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
the following things : firft, they differ in their longitude ; in women they are fhorter, 
by reafon of the fhortnefs of the paffage, but they have more wreathings, windings,” 
and turnings, where they make the corpus varicofum about the tefticle, that the feed” 
may have a fufficient ftay for its due preparation: fecondly, in their infertion; in 
women they pafs not whole to the teflicles, as in a man, but are divided in the mide’ 
way : whence the greater part goes to the tefticles to form the corpus varicofum; the 
fmaller part to the womb, into whofe fides it is diffeminated, efpecially to the upper 
- part of the bottom, to nourifh the womb, and the child therein; and that by thofe 
vefiels fome part of the menftrual blood may be purged forth in fuch as are not with 
child. This fmaller part is tripartite, being divided below the tefticle into three 
branches, of which one runs out into the womb, as aforefaid : the fecond is diftribut- 
ed to the vas deferens, or trumpet of the womb, and to the round ligament : the third 
creeps along the fides of the womb, infinuating itfelf among the venz hypogattrica,” 
with which and the arteries they are joined by anaftomofes: thirdly, the fpermatic 
veins receive the hypogaftric arteries as they pafs by the fides of the wferus, that the 
blood might be the better elaborated ; and they are ¢ intermixed with many won 
anaftomofes for the preparation of feed. 
The tefticles in women differ from thofe in men in thefe following things: 1. in 
fituation, for thefe are placed within the hypoga(trium, about two inches above the 
bottom of the matrix, in fuch women as are not with child, being tied by certain li- 
gaments: 2. in magnitude, for thefe are lefs than the tefticles in men ; for by reafon 
of their heat they are contracted after the woman is fourteen years of age ; whereas, 
before that age, they are more large, being full of a white juice: 3. in their furface, 
for thefe are more uneven than thofe of aman: 4. in their figure, for thefe are more 
broad and flat on the fore and hinder parts; they are alfo more hollow, and fuller of 
natic moifture: 5. in their fubftance, being fofter, and, if you take off the mem- 
al ne ; you. will find them conglomerated or knobbed together of divers little kernels 
. lad ers, five or fix, or more, which contain the thick feed : 6. in their membranes 
; el _whereas mens have four tunicles, thefe have but one, pri wart are 
in jo ee on, for they are knit to the fides of the uterus by two ani na 
fages, viz. by the two upper ligaments, which are loofe and membranous, and out of 
which, in the time of coition, the feed is caft : 8. in their appendices, thefe having no 
paraftatze, nor any cremafters; but are ftayed by the broad lateral ligaments, called 
the bat’s wings. Their ufe i is, the fame as i in man, to make, — and get 
the feed. : it 
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