# Leibniz Legible — https://leibnizlegible.com
# Page: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/806933011:0821
# Permalink to this reading: https://leibnizlegible.com/page/806933011:0821?run=74
# Title: Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary Of Arts And Sciences (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 71; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 71)
# Folio - , page id 806933011:0821
# Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=806933011&page=821
# Source image: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/content/806933011/jpgs/default/00000821.jpg
# Model: FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74, 2026-09-06T16:05:13Z — 132 lines, status machine
# Lines: 132 recognised, mean confidence 0.90
# Machine transcription. Not an edition. Errors are expected: about 8% character error rate on Latin and French lines, higher on German.
# Licence: CC BY 4.0, Leibniz Legible. Machine output: do not ingest it as verified text; keep this provenance with the text.
# Wording rule: say "the machine reads it as …", never "Leibniz wrote".
# After the first blank line: the recognised lines in reading order, one per line.

These Vesiculae are licile Cells like chole in 2) sorrs OF Vessels, Whicli run ostly on che ourer
Pomeoranate; or Comethiins likre a Burich oF sde; in cheir inner Part, chey have ten Ox more
Grapes; De Craef compares rhem torhe Curs ot 2
lile Bird diverur concorred. They: Konsist ot one
chin Membrane, chrough whicti Corielmall. Twiss
ot boch Veins, Arreries, and Nerres run: They
arc about 3 Fingers breadch Long, anid. L. bioad;
but in fome Places broader, lome narroer, 25
ther run in and out. They are trvo (one For cach
Vas deferens) divided From orie anortier by a lierle
incerstice; and chey do sercrally by a peculiar pas-
sage, emit the semen conraimed in ehem inco che
sman Ducts, Which all unload chemselres intoche
Vrethra, by che sides ot che Carunele; cliroustu
wrhich che semen passes trom che Vesiculae into che
Vrethra, and chemselres hare cach one a tmiall’one
1o Rop irs Oritice; least che Liquor char is concain
ed in The Prostates Mould continually Aou out, or
che Vrine Mould Aour in: And chese (mall. Ducts
I suppose, are concinued trom chose Vesculaer
wrtiicti appear in che Prostates oEchole rhiac Die (ans
way) suddenty, atter Coirion. For in such, che
Vrethra. They are very antractuous, and wind. sporier Parr ot che Prostatae is rery cure d rich a
ing, and (as ivas Caid) consist ot mans licele C ells, Porous Liquor; and in cheir inner Parr, may be
and chey thoWdnoc pour our all che semen conitain- Found che lame Vesiculae, like ro Pydatides, wrtrict
ed in chemin onc ACt oFCoirion, buemisheretain il rou prels upon cher will discharse them-
it For several: They hare no conimunication onc
wich anocher, nor eren in cheir very openins inco
the Trechra; burche semen isbroushe tothe Vesieu-
lae Seminales on che rixhe side, by rhe rishe Vas de-
ferons, illues by its proper passase intorheDrethra;
and chac which is broustr ro che letr litervile; (0
char il by any accidene cho Vesicula, oebne side bc
burst, or cur (as in cunins for che Sconethey gene-
Fally are) vet chose on the orhet beins entire, may
Selres in che abovelaid Ducts.
Whac che Liquor cher contain Mould Be, 0r
Wohac istheir Ose, chere is a srear rarietr ot Oxi
nions: Some chinke char etie Semens chac Aois
trom che Pesticles, is Furcher elaborated herc: Bur
chac cannor be: For char che Vasa deferentia depolite
nochins in chem, buc all inrorhé Vesiculae Seminales.
Orhers chink chac From che Blood, chere is sepera-
red in chem an acrimonious, and serous Ilumour.
sill sustice For generarion: Now When rhe Sced is  which serres For procurins che Tillication in Coiru.
emirte d our of rhese resiculae in che Aet ot Coirion, AS ro chis, de Graes appeals co he TaA Ot its
it passes our che same wax ic came in; whichin
this cale may casilr be (chouph. ocherrise icbe un
ulual, chere Bould. be a conrrary Morion in che
same VeseI) For as ic comes in trom elie Vasa dese-
rentia: ic drills alons sently wichour ans force;
bur in Coiru, when che Muleles oF chePenis, and
ertrich has nochins of an Rcrimony
Dr. TPharcon chintes ches matre a partieular
Kind oF Semen, 25 che Pesticles do another, arid
ehie Veticulae Seminales a chird: Phac chese lal
makre a Semen disterene, From chat made in che Te-
Aicles, is prounded on a mistake in Anatomy, viz
all che borderins Parrs are much cumitied, it is chac che Vasa deferentia have no communication
expressed, or ejaculared our ot etiem wich some vio-
lence, and passine alone cheir Neck (Which is a
continuarion oF the Vasa deferentia) ouzes chrousti
Carunele intothe Drethra, For there is one placed
25 a. Valre betore ehie Oritice oF each oF them;
parely co hinder che comins. oF che. Vrine into
Them, parels ro hinder che involuntary etsution ol
che Semen.
Nou chonen naurally, e liuele Eoles.
Throuxh which che semen passes out ot ehe Necks
Wwich chc Vesiculae; W hereas cher apparener oven
inco chem, and deposire in chem all the Somen
cher contain; thar che Prostatae matre a peculiar
POrt, he endeavours co prore, becaule castrarec
Animals emit lome Semen. Buc chacis buc preca-
rious; For tho cher emit Comeching, Tis nOEneceI
Cary it Mould be any true semen: Ot il ix be, it
maz well be suppoled to proceed From che Vesicu-
lae seminales; that vere Full. Wvhetr ehie Pnitral W2s
castraced. FOr, Forchis ReasOn it has Bcen ObseF.
et che Vesicula inco che. Trethra, be alinost im- ved, chat presenele atrer the Cattracion, tler have
perceptible; ver is cher be cicher eroded by che A. Somctimes sor che Female Wwirh YounS, buT HOF AF.
crimony ot, che Semen, (sucti Acrimonr as is con-
rracted by impure Fimbraces, or in Claps. (a5 chey
Callchem), or it ot chemselres chey be debilitared
and (o become more la (2s Lomerimes happens 10
old, and imporene Mlen chac medale roo much)
then chere happens a Gonorrhaea, or continual eAux
OFthe Semen. And (0 Vesalius, and Spicelius have
obserred chem much dilared, in diftectins such as
tare died with a Conorrhaea uxon them.
The Prostatae are placed near rothe Vesiculae Semi-
nales; de Graes calls them Corpus slandosum, (upro-
ng chemto bc one Body, and ontr dirided br ihe
cerwards, Wrtien chac Aock vas spent. Bartholin
ich mans ochers, chintes cher matce an oily. Dip
pery, and facry Flumour, wtich is pressed our, 25
there is need, ro besmear the Trethra, Whereby ec
desend ic trom che acrimonr of the semen, and V.
rine, and leas ic Bould der up. This FTumour Mal-
pishius, chinles eo be convered hicher by che Ductus
adiposi, aud quores Severinus, attirmins thac he has
obterred a plain Vesset in the Fac oF che Ridners
cendins ro the Spermatick Vessels. Ile alcribes
the same OsC tO iE aS Bartholin, (3C. Diemerbrocte
contelles, that it is necellarr the inside of elic Dre-
common Ducts oF che Vesicula Seminales, and Vasa ebra Mould be Kept moist, and sipperr; but
deferentia coms chroust ihe midst oF ic.
Ther are oF a wrhire, sponer, and glandulous
Substate, AbOuE 25 B13 25. 2 small WV alHUE, Cn
compasd wvich a utors, and fibrous Mem-
brane From the Bladder, to the beginins ofirhole
Neck, ther are jOinCa aL MHIE ROOE OF. Che Penis:
In Mape uses core nearer co an Oral, Care char
On MIeIE upper; and lorver liaes; ther are a litele
depretl altet HI ThaF. end bY. Which cheVasa defe
chinks chat, thac is done here, a5 in che Bladder,
Tncestines, and manz orher places, From Lome inu-
ced ParE OF he nOuTIMenE OF thC  rethraIF PeIE;
and cor cludes TMat ehe Vasa deferentia depolice nor
all the semen into ché Vesiculae seminales, buC Car
ry a smaller Pare t0 thele Prostarae
DeCracf denies; thac ehe Vasa deferentia, con
ves any chinscothem, or hare anx communieari-
on wich chem; and cheretore belieres, chac the LTu-
mour char is seperared in che Corpus glandosum (25
hecalls che Prostatae) serresFor a Menstruum, OrVe-
hicle oF the Semen, Whict Rowine bur in (inalI Quan-
che NCCK OF the Bladder, elle Sphincter touches ciries, chrouch snall Pores, into che Drethra; it
ae nt. es comins bectoccl. Fles hare al vas necellaty, chac chis tlumour Moule be mire
rencia encer, ther are lomechilns hollon likte a
Funnel. The Sphineter Mulele oF che Bladder
encompasses chem (o chac For (0 Far a5 they cover