The compleat midwife's practice enlarged in the most weighty and high concernments of the birth of man containing a perfect directory or rules for midwives and nurses : as also a guide for women in their conception, bearing and nursing of children from the experience of our English authors, viz., Sir Theodore Mayern, Dr. Chamberlain, Mr. Nich. Culpeper ... : with instructions of the Queen of France's midwife to her daughter ... / by John Pechey ... ; the whole illustrated with copper plates.

CHAP. X. Of the Vessels that cast forth their Seed.

THat passage which comes from the head of the Testicles to the root of the Yard, is called the Ejaculatory Vessel. This, as I said before, rises from the head of the Testicles, and joyning downward to the Testicle, descends to the bottom, and thence be∣ing reflected again, and annext to the preparing Ves∣sel, it returns again to the head of the Testicle; from thence it proceeds upward from the Testicles, till it touch the bone of the small guts, still keeping close to the preparing Vessel, till it pierce the production of the Hypogastrium. Thence tending downward through the hollowness of the hip, it slides between the blad∣der and the streight Gut, till it reach the glandulous Prostatae, or Forestanders, and fix it self at the foot, or root of the Yard, and there end. It is not all one at the beginning, and at the end; for at the begin∣ning, while it remains among the Tunicles of the Testicles, it is full of windings and turnings; near the end, it hath many little bladders like to warts.

Now we must understand that these Seminary Ves∣sels do not only contain the Seed, but they perfect and concoct it, having a seminifick, or Seed-making qua∣lity, which they borrow from the Testicles: There are other uses of these seminary Vessels, for, near the original of this vessel, that is to say, the head of the Testicles, many small passages, or as it were con∣duit-pipes, do stretch themselves forward into the bo∣dy of the Testicle, into which the genital Seed that remains is remitted, and also drawn, or sucked from those passages; this seminary passage is at length wound above the Testicles, adjoyning all along, but

no where incorporated into the body of the Testicle, unless at the bottom, in which place it is thought that the Seed doth again insinuate it self into the Testicles through those hollow fibres: being thence propaga∣ted, and continually making supply to the Stones.

It is to be noted also, that these Vessels while they move to the root of the Yard, do not go by streight passages, which would be then very short but by crooked windings and turnings making the passages as long as may be, that they may have longer time to contain and prepare the Seed.