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tock ; that on which the thigh turns, the cotyledon. The 

 peculiar part of women is the uterus ; of men the penis, it 

 is external, at the extremity of the trunk in two parts ; the 

 upper part is fleshy and smooth, and is called glans ; this is 

 covered with an anonymous skin, which, if it is cut asunder, 

 does not unite again, neither does the cheek nor the eyelid. 



4. Common to this and the glans is the prepuce, the re 

 maining part is cartilaginous, readily increases in size, and 

 it is drawn in and out, contrary to that of the class of ani 

 mals called lophuri. Beneath the penis are two testicles, 

 surrounded hy a skin called the scrotum ; the testicles are 

 not of the same nature as flesh, nor are they made of flesh. 

 In another place we shall treat of the nature of all these 

 parts more accurately. 



5. The pudendum muliebre is contrary to that of the 

 male, for it is hollow under the pubes, not projecting like 

 that of the male, and the urethra is outside the womb, for the 

 passage of the semen of the male, and for the fluid excre 

 ment of both. The part of the body which joins the neck and 

 the breast is called the jugulum ; that which unites the side, 

 the arm, and the shoulder is the arm-pit. The region 

 between the thigh and the hypogastric region is called the 

 groin ; the part common to the thigh and the buttock on the 

 inside is the perineum, that of the thigh and buttock on the 

 outside is called hypoglutis. 



6. We have previously treated of the trunk. The hinder 

 part of the breast is called the back : the parts of the back 

 are two shoulder blades and the back-bone ; below the thorax, 

 and opposite the stomach, are the loins ; the ribs belong 

 both to the back and the front of the trunk, and are eight 

 on each side, for we have never heard anything worthy of 

 credit concerning the Ligyes, who are said to have seven ribs. 



CHAPTER XI. 



1. MAN has upper and lower side, the front and the back, and 

 right and left side. The right and the left are nearly alike in 

 their parts and in every particular, except that the left side 

 is the weaker ; but the back parts are not like the front ; 

 nor the lower parts to the upper, except in this particular, 

 that the parts below the hypogastric region are full-fleshed 

 or lean in proportion to the face, and the arms also answer 



