Nine books of physick and chirurgery written by that great and learned physitian, Dr Sennertus. The first five being his Institutions of the whole body of physick: the other four of fevers and agues: with their differences, signs, and cures.

CHAP. VI. Of the signs of the temperature of the Testicles.

THose whose Testicles are in good temper are fruit∣ful; those whose Stones are too hot, are lecherous, * 1.1 and apt for Venus betimes, and fruitful also, and beget boyes, and they also have hair in their privy parts betimes, and have beards also very young.

Those who have cold Stones are not apt for Venus, * 1.2 nor fruitful; and if they do generate, they rather procreate Females then Males, and their genital parts are more bald, and have lesse hair, and they slowly, or never put forth a beard.

Those who have moist abound with much seed, * 1.3 but watry, and have broad beards.

Those who have dry ones, generate little seed, * 1.4 and that indifferent thick, and are apt to have little beards.

Those who have hot and dry Testicles generate thick seed, and are fruitful, and are timely stirr'd up to Venus, * 1.5 and yet are easily hurt by Venue, they beget Males, unless the sluggish nature of the woman hinder it; hair comes betimes in the genitalls, and plentifully, and in all the parts neer, upwards in the parts nigh the Navel, down∣wards to the middle of the Thighs.

Those who have heat and moisture, * 1.6 do more abound with seed, they affect Venus moderately, and can easily brook it, if the constitution of the rest of the body agree, nay sometimes they are offended by retaining of the seed, they generate as well Males as Females, and are no so rough about the Genitals.

Those whose Testicles are cold and moist begin to use Venus late, * 1.7 neither are they prone to Venus, and they are also unfruitful, or if they generate fruitful seed, 'tis more fit to procreate Females then Males, and the seed is thin and watry.

Lastly, * 1.8 those that have cold and dry Stones, Generate thick seed, and but little, and are more hurt after Coition then cold and moist ones.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Signs of temperate Testicles. Hot.
• * 1.2

  Cold.
• * 1.3

  Moist.
• * 1.4

  Dry.
• * 1.5

  Hot and dry.
• * 1.6

  Hot and moist.
• * 1.7

  Cold and moist.
• * 1.8

  Cold and dry.