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fiejs^ where, T)aving rejefted the opinion of HieronyMUj Bar^atus, 
teaching, that'the Serfim is as aiiraentary to thcSpermatiquc parts, 
as the is to the Carneous ^ he highly commends what Signor 
Mdfiohi hath deteded in the Kidneys UhJe Renibfis, (of which fee 
alfo iV//»?^.44.of thefe Trads/?.890.)anddircourfes at large of the 
manner of the Separation of w Serfim from the blood, which, in 
his opinion, is done by a peculiar fermentation made in that partv 
yet leaving itin the dark, How by that efFervefcence the ferous 
part of the blood, together with many impurities, isfeparatcd, 
and what configuration it acquires, fit to pafs alone through the 
pores of the Kidneys, with exclufion to the Blood ? And, which is 
much more ftrange, Mow divers folid andhardbodies,as Needles, 
fmall NailsjFennii and Anni-feeds,c^ir. (of which here arc alledged 
Examples well attefted,) can be excreted with Urine, but without 
blood^To render forae tolerable account of which fhAnomem 
fo,to conceive the better , How Spaw-waters can be in fo great 
plenty voided, without pafling through the heart, lungs and kid- 
neys,^ without molefting theHeart jOur Author fufpeds, there are 
fome Ladeous veffeU,going fome yet unknown way to the Blad- 
der andWombj which fufpition he conifirras by this,that foraetiraes 
a chylous milky matter hath beeh feen voided with the urine : By 
which way he iraagins alfo that thofe liquors do pafs,whofc colour 
andfcentdo remain unchanged in the Wine: of which cafes he 
names feveral, not only of Oyl of Turpentine , andAfparagus 
(which are commonly known to do fo,)but alfo of a black medicin, 
rendring black the Urin,foon made after it i of Saffron given to a 
Woman in travel, and having tinged the child, born within a quar- 
ter of an hour afcer^of-fome, that had eaten the roafted fat ofZ^iw^- 
Kidneys ^^hich by the Author himfelf was feen foon after to come 
almort all away with the \Xnnt,&c. 
Treating ofthe Pms of Generation-^ht animadverts upon Vejlingi- 
us and others,that teach the fpermatique veins and arteries to ter- 
minate in the Paraf^at£,ix\A there to be changed into the vafa defe- 
remUidiS bodies continued to them ^ whereas bethinks it evident, 
that thofe vefl'eisdo not enter into the parafiata , but the teftides 
themfelvcs^which later being difcourfed of by him, he not only al- 
ledgcs examples of fome, that had ^tsjles^ but alfo an inllance of 
one that was born without any at all, and yet aded the part of vi-' 
riiity in coity.. Then he rejects the opinion of thofe, that hold a' 
threefold Semen, elaborated in three different parts, and. neceflary . 
to generation: He fliews alfo, how caftrated animals may engender^ 
and yet how inconfequent it is, that becaufe forae animals deftitute 
of tefti( Ics-do generate, therefore the testes do not confcere femen, 
Prpceeding to theFeraal Sex, he inquires into the nature of thc/^r- 
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