An history of the wonderful things of nature set forth in ten severall classes wherein are contained I. The wonders of the heavens, II. Of the elements, III. Of meteors, IV. Of minerals, V. Of plants, VI. Of birds, VII. Of four-footed beasts, VIII. Of insects, and things wanting blood, IX. Of fishes, X. Of man / written by Johannes Jonstonus, and now rendred into English by a person of quality.

Artic. 3. Of the Generative parts.

I Shall speak but little of these, and with a mind that is modest, and with such a mind they ought to be read. Histories relate, that Sylla had but one testicle; and Philip Landgrave of Hassia had 3. Thuan. l. 41. He addes, he was so full of juice for venery, that when he used onely his Wife, and she could not suffer him so often, as he would; he being otherwise a chaste man, by consent of his wife, and relating his mind to the Priests, he was forced to take a Concu∣bine besides. A Prince of Germany who was emasculated by a Can∣non bullet, made that member of silver, and with that he got many children, Nancel. Analog. Microcosm. l. 7. A Bull that presently leapt on a Cow, so soon as he was gelt, got her with Calf, Aristotle. And Albertus relates of an Eunuch that used copulation. One was born without a genital member, yet with the Scrotum and testicles; ano∣ther, without the parts of either Sex, Schenkius in observat▪ It is cer∣tain, that Virgins have a virginall Cloyster. But there is not a little skin placed a thwart in the middle of the matrix, that makes the neck thereof impassible: but four Caruncles, placed round, with small fibres comming between them, till they are broken by force, and they are circularly shrivelled by course, leaving a hole in the middle of them, that the terms may run forth from the matrix, Ludovic. de Gar∣din. Anatom. c. 99. Avicenna l. 3. sen. 21. makes mention of a part found in the privity of a woman, which he calls the wand, or Alba∣thara. Albucasis l. 2. c. 7. calls it Tentigo; and sometimes this hath grown so big, that women that have it, could copulate with others like men, Fa••lopius. Caesarean births shew, that the womb may be cut sometimes without danger. Physicall Histories testifie, that one had her Matrix cut out for her Lasciviousnesse, yet without danger of her life. Rhodiginus saith, he saw a Maid foretell future things by her matrix. Chrysostome saith, that one of Apollo's Nuns did the like.