Gonosologium novum: or, a new system of all the secret infirmities and diseases, natural, accidental, and venereal in men and women ... With a further warning against quacks / By John Marten ... Written by way of appendix to the sixth edition of his book of the venereal disease lately publish'd.

  • Marten, John, -1737
Date:
1709
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Credit: Gonosologium novum: or, a new system of all the secret infirmities and diseases, natural, accidental, and venereal in men and women ... With a further warning against quacks / By John Marten ... Written by way of appendix to the sixth edition of his book of the venereal disease lately publish'd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in order to perpetuate the Species, by producing new Creatures to fupply the room of thofe who are gone , without which defire, what rational Creature would have taken delight in fo filthy, fo contemptible and ,bafe a thing as Venery is ? And indeed, bad not Na¬ ture tack’d a more than ordinary pleafing Senfation and Defire to each Sex, in the Adt, by giving thofe Parts fuch a quick tender Senfe and tranfporting Titillation, and which with all the artillery of Rea- fon we are not able to controul, (fo furious is our paf- Eon for the Embrace,) we fliould have no manner of incitement or inclination to the performing it; and confequently Procreation muft foon ceafe and be at an end : For Man, a Divine and moft noble Crea¬ ture, endu’d, as faid before, with Reafon and Un- derftanding, would never yield to make his mind fubjedl to a thing, fo Abjecfh and Filthy, fo Unclean and Brutifli as is carnal Copulation,were he not indeed by the power of thofe Venerous Ticklings we have fpoken of, which Nature hath plac'd in the Genital Parts, and furnifht with more exadfc and exquifite Senfe than any other parts of the Body befides. Thefe things confidet'd, brings me forth to the Difinirion and Structure of thofe Curious, and, as fome fay, noble Parts miniftring to Procreation ijtf each Sex, which I fhall in purfuance of my promife made in the fixtb and laft Edition of my Book of the Venereal Difeafe lately Publiflfd, fet forth particular¬ ly, fo far as is neceftary, and I am capable of doing, and fiiew the wonderful operation of Nature in Ge¬ neration, and feek out the Infirmities, Difeafes and Caufes that hinder Generation, and from thence pre- feribe means to remove or cure thofe Defe&s and Difeafes, and confequently afiift Nature, and further her in a concern of fo much Variety and Curiofity* I fhall begin as order direfts, firft with Man, and mention a little diftin&dy his Parts miniftring to Ge¬ neration, the better to lead us to the Infirmities and Difeafes thereof. The