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Chap. 17. Of Medicines regarding the Seed.
AS Milk, so also Seed takes his Original from Blood.
Therfore of necessity nourishing meats 〈◊〉〈◊〉 much Seed, because they beget much Blood.
This is the difference between such things as breed Milk, and such as breed Seed, Seed requires a more windy 〈◊〉〈◊〉 than the other doth.
For this faculty ought to be in Seed, that being heat with spirits it may cause the Yard to stand.
Such Medicines are temperately hot and moist.
Also to provoke one to the sports of Venus, we use such things as stir up the veneral faculty.
These are hotter than those that encrease Seed, yet not so dry that they should consume the Seed.
Take notice of this 〈◊〉〈◊〉, that some things dull Ve∣nus by cold, and some over power her by 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
The one of those 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the Seed, the other makes it torped and sluggish, staies the Itching.
For the Seed of Man is subject to as many contin∣gents as the Man himself is.
It is not my 〈◊〉〈◊〉 here to treat of them, for such things as make Seed either thinner or thicker, are not properly said to breed Seed.
For the time, when Seed should be encreased; I need say nothing, unless I should say when a Man hath got a prety 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
If the Body be vicious, let it first be purged, let Seed be entreased before it be provoked.
Biting things lessen the Seed, stir up the Venerial parts to expulsion, cause Itching, or tickling of the 〈◊〉〈◊〉, therefore they are good to be used a little before the act, otherwise the constant use of them, consumes and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the Seed.
Observe thus much, that one and the same Medi∣cine doth not suit with every complexion, for ex∣ample, If the person be 〈◊〉〈◊〉 let the Medi∣cine be the hotter.
The use of these Medicines is the propagation of Mankind, for the desire of Children inches many to Copulation, but the pleasure that is in the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ten times more.