Vena Prse- 
- parantes. 
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' be ctie Tejles, nothing elfe outwardly appearing that contain’d 
1 Seminary Vefiels ■, until he underftood by the Curious and 
‘ Learned Dr. Needham, that his Defer iption of the Tejles of the 
4 Elephant did agree to the Proftata of a Bear: Upon which he 
4 miftook the Tejles for the Projlata , there being a great Re- 
4 femblance between thefe Animals^ and having found twoSub- 
4 fiances betwixt the Kidneys and Neck of the Bladder, which 
4 might very well be Tefies , and which, till he difeours’d that 
4 Ingenious Gentleman* he did not know what to make of. And 
then he proceeds : 
4 The Vena Praparantes were large : He divided that which 
‘ was inferred into the EmuJgent lengthwife and within a lit- 
4 tie more than an Inch of its Infertion he found many Valves, 
4 to the Number of about S or io, of divers Shapes, all fitted to 
‘ hinder the return of the Blood into the varioufly divided Sper- 
‘ matick Vein, which here from 8 or io Rivulets became one 
* great Channel- Within about an Inch of this, and fomewhat 
4 more than two from the Kidneys, he found a Subftance of 
4 the Shape of a Pear, but near three times the bignefs of a ve- 
4 ry large one. He was at a lofs to know what this might be, 
4 and confefles he can give but an imperfect Account of it, fince 
4 the Butchers cut it out, and fo its Continuation with the 7e- 
* Jles, Penis , and other Parts, could not be dilcoveied. 
4 What he obferv’d in it was, that the Spermatick Vefiels 
4 entred but a little way into this Subftance*, but below the 
4 middle of it he found them more deeply plac’d, and their 
4 Branches grew fo fmall, and lefs numerous to the Sight, as if 
4 here the Veins began. The inner part of this Subftance look’d 
4 of a palifh, but fomewhat muddy red Colour. ’Twa. very 
4 Spongy, not much more compadl than the Lungs of young 
* Animals. He doubts not but this Subftance was defigned to 
4 prepare the Semen ; but by whai Vefiels it was brought to the 
4 Penis or any other Repofitory, ( itfelf containing none; he could 
4 not difeover • neither could he find any peculiar Veflel, or 
4 Duttus, or any thing that refembled that before-mentioned 
4 Subftance, by which he might be direded in his Enquiry. It 
4 lies lengthwife from the Kidney to the T ejles, with the biggeft 
4 end loweft. He is of Opinion, from what he has heard from 
* Dr. Needham of thefe Part-, that thefe two Pear- fafhion’d, 
4 now defcrib’d Subftances, were Tejles their Place, Size, Fi- 
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