94 CULPEPER ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
fhaped caruntics: it. is of a,reafonable largenefs, and framed by nature to ftay the 
feed caft into the neck from too quickly flipping out. The myrtle-fhaped catun- 
cles, are placed fo as to. appear ina quadrangular form, one at each corner: one of © 
“them is placed before or above in the circumference of the hole of the urinary paffage 
to fhut the fame, it being largeft and forked, that it might receive the end of the. 
meacus urinarius, and hinder external things from entering: the fecond is oppofite 
‘to the former, and is fituate below; the two remaining ones are placed collaterally: 
their figure refembles a myrtle-berry: their magnitude is various in different fab- 
jects ; their fubftance is framed of the reduplication of the flefhy neck of the womb, 
‘being partly flefhy, partly membranous: they are conneéted with membranes or 
_walves: their ufes are for titillation in the time of coition, and alfo immediately to 
fhut the orifice of the neck, that air, duft, nor any other matter, may enter. ‘The 
orifice of the urinal paffage, is a hole under the clitoris above the neck; through | 
this women make water, and it feems to be fhut with a kind of flefhy valve. The 
clitoris, called by fome zympba, by others, zentigo, by others the woman’s yard, be- 
~ caufe it refembles a man’s yard in figure, fubftance, compofition, repletion with fpi- 
rits, erection, and fituation. Its figure is fomewhat like the glans andpreputium — 
of the penis; but it is commonly fmall, being feated in the middle of the os pubis'in — 
the upper and former end of the foffa magna, where the alee or nymphz meet; butin 
its beginning for the moft part it lies hid under the nymphae, and afterwards ftieks 
out alittle. Its fubftance is like that of a man’s yard, confifting of two nervous bodies, 
"hard and thick, but within full of a black fpungious matter, as in the lateral As oe 
ments of the yard. The two lateral ligaments avife from: the internal knob of the — 
‘ifchium: the thirds between thele, {pringing from the joining of the os pubis. “its 
‘mujcles are the fame in. nature and number with thofe in a mam, Its extremityis 
ae glans, which hath a fuperficial hollownefs, but not bored through ; ‘this is'¢o- 
. vered with a yery thin fkin as a preputium, which fprings from the joining ‘of the 
2 mphz,, I: has veins and arteries, common to itand the privity, and anerve 
» Bs ome etal than its badly os feem_ to PeRpune; to coh it een 
phe fethy, fees casos, dicta as alfo'to ee | 
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