He asked, "And what showeth the man whose semen is thin?
He stopped at each, took out a communion, shook a drop or two (are they in water?
He pulled the halldoor to after him very quietly, more, till the footleaf dropped gently over the threshold, a limp lid.
The priest went along by them, murmuring, holding the thing in his hands.
On the doorstep he felt in his hip pocket for the latchkey.
I spent much time now in this leg inspection and frigging myself, till I could scarcely get semen out of me.
He's tumbled off the wall, dear booy, an' semen to me he's scat un shoulder very bad.
Consequently this semenis not the necessary matter of conception; as the Philosopher says (De Gener.
Woman's semen is not apt for generation, but is something imperfect in the seminal order, which, on account of the imperfection of the female power, it has not been possible to bring to complete seminal perfection.
But other men's bodies are not formed from the purest blood but from the semen and the menstrual blood.
If therefore Christ's body was not conceived of thesemen of male and female, it would not have been truly a human body; which cannot be asserted.
But the matter of human form appears to be the semen of male and female.
But this would not be, if the semen were produced from surplus food.
The rib belonged to the integral perfection of Adam, not as an individual, but as the principle of the human race; just as the semen belongs to the perfection of the begetter, and is released by a natural and pleasurable operation.
As to the active power which was in the semen, it ceases to exist, when the semen is dissolved and the (vital) spirit thereof vanishes.
But if the semen from which something is generated, is produced from the surplus food, a man would receive nothing from his grandfather and his ancestors in whom the food never existed.
Now it is not possible that the semen be a kind of solution from what is already transformed into the substance of the members.
Adam as the principle of the human race, as the semen in man, who is a principle through generation.
In perfect animals, generated by coition, the active force is in the semen of the male, as the Philosopher says (De Gener.
Further, if there be in the semen any principle productive of the sensitive soul, this principle either remains after the animal is begotten, or it does not remain.
Consequently there is no need for this active force to have an actual organ; but it is based on the (vital) spirit in the semen which is frothy, as is attested by its whiteness.
Thus the semen would be a small animal in act; and generation of animal from animal would be a mere division, as mud is generated from mud, and as animals which continue to live after being cut in two: which is inadmissible.
But the semen cannot cause sin, because it lacks the rational part of the soul, which alone can be a cause of sin.
In whom all have sinned": whereas it is in the bodily semen, as in its instrumental cause, since it is by the active power of the semen that original sin together with human nature is transmitted to the child.
Much less, therefore, can the semen infect the soul.
The semen is the principle of generation, which is an act proper to nature, by helping it to propagate itself.
Original sin is caused by the semen as instrumental cause.
Experience proved that in a certain case on two successive occasions male individuals were born when the impregnation had been so contrived that the semen should enter the right ovary.
Couteau established the fact that each seminal duct had its own orifice, through which the semen was poured into the urethra.
If, on the contrary, the semen contains a great quantity of nitrogen, a male individual will result.
On the other hand, if the mother was insufficiently fed, young semen operating upon an old ovum would produce a majority of male individuals.
But he lays down this principle, that an economy of the semen by infrequent indulgence in intercourse is extremely favorable to the production of males.
Also the discharge of semen was asserted not to take place from both spermatic ducts at the same time.
The point of time in the life of an ovum, at which it has reached that degree of ripeness which gives it such a character that the semen can no longer affect the determination of the sex, cannot be absolutely settled.
If we observe a drop of the semen of this creature diluted with sea water, the greater number of the spermatozoa, possessing head, central portion, and tail, move about very energetically.
But any closer interpretation of this function of thesemen is rendered nugatory in advance by this, that it is in some cases the male and in others the female that results from the unfertilized ova.
This fact was in his days of the greatest importance, as it prevented any mixture of the semen of a man's two testicles.
Perhaps the excess of semen serves for the earliest nutritive processes of the ovum; which would, however, be difficult to prove.
This view follows from the fact that, as Thury's theory demands, a fertilization and a determination of the sex must necessarily take place as regards time either at the beginning or the end of the mingling of semen and ovum.
FN#308] Complete ablution is rendered necessary chiefly by the emission of semen either in copulation or in nocturnal pollution.
Bot why the fyres suche semen Of sondri formes to beholde, The wise Philosophre tolde, So as tofore it hath ben herd.
This is necessarily so, for the whole of the essentially necessary part of the male in the process of human procreation is confined to the ejaculation of semen into the vagina.
It is no longer a question of the formation of semenin the male, of the function of menstruation in the female.
At 18 to 19 thesemen of a 'pollution' has left tender red patches where it dried on the neighboring skin, and deep straw-colored stains in the linen.
The ejaculator reflex, being habituated to this, seems to set in with its throbs when the maneuver is simulated, though no semen has yet been poured into the bulbous portion for the ejaculators to act upon.
The semen was copious and watery, and the relief was marked, but in an hour's time the headache returned.
The semen was copious, but thick and ropy, with lumps as large as small peas that could scarcely be crushed with the finger, and yellow in color and rank in odor.
Later I have examined such semen microscopically and found the spermatozoa dead and disintegrating.
I slept well and had a sense of elation at the proof of manhood, for we boys were anxious about whether we secreted semen or not.
For a long time she disliked seeing or touching the penis, and the feel, and especially the smell, of the semen produced nausea and even vomiting.
The secretion of the male known as the seed or semen depends for the life-transmitting power upon little minute bodies called spermatozoa.
The time between the deposit of the semen and fecundation varies according to circumstances.
The urethra performs the important mission of emptying the bladder, and is rendered very much larger by the passion, and the semen is propelled along through it by little layers of muscles on each side meeting above and below.
It is this gland at the end that draws the semen forward.
If the semen contains no spermatozoa, or only a few deformed or lazily moving ones, then he is sterile.
This fluid in women is not a vital fluid like the semen in man; it is merely mucus, and in some women it is very slight in amount or altogether absent.
We can easily obtain a specimen of the man's semen and determine, by means of the microscope, whether it contains spermatozoa or not.
This mode of transportation outwards of the semen has not hitherto been known to occur in Ganoids, though found in all Elasmobranchii, Amphibia, and Amniota.
From the Malpighian body so connected start the convoluted tubuli of what may be called the generative segments of the Wolffian body along which the semen is conveyed to the Wolffian duct (v.
It has already been stated that the semen is carried by vasa efferentia from the testes to the anterior segments of the Wolffian body, and thence through the coils of the Wolffian body to the Wolffian duct.
These ducts, the vasa efferentia, carry the semen to the Wolffian body, but before opening into the tubuli of this they unite into the longitudinal canal of the Wolffian body (l.
The presence of vasa efferentia in the male carrying the semen from the testes to the kidney, and through the tubules of the latter into the kidney duct.
The White Mountain was formed from discharges of Rudra's semen virile and the sensual indulgences of the Fire-god with the Krittikas took place on that same White Mountain.
And, O chief of Kuru's race, the lady Swaha on the first lunar day threw six times into that lake the semen of Agni.
That excellent lady quickly ascending a peak of those mountains, threw that semen into a golden lake.
And the semen of the high-souled Rudra cast into the reproductive organ of Uma was thrown back upon this hill, and hence the twin Mujika and Minjika came into being.
If losses of semen are taking place in the urine, it would be well to forward a sample of it at once, for a full and extended analysis, which will be made for the nominal fee of $2, merely to cover the cost of chemicals.
They began to eat their dinner, and Semen saw that Mikhayla had made a pair of soft shoes from the gentleman's material.
Semen saw Ivan, and, "I have come to live with you," he said.
And when Semen awoke, the hut was as before, and in the room were only his family.
King Semen listened to his new general, and ordered all the young men without exception to be drafted as soldiers, and started new factories.
Semen died from that flogging; Anisim he wore out in the stocks.
The women began to pour the bombs on Semen's army, like borax on cockroaches, and the whole army ran away, and King Semen was left alone.
And people from all the surrounding country began to come to Semen for boots, and Semen's income began to grow.
So Semen the Warrior said: "Let us go to our brother!
No man produces semen elaboratum in testibus--more than 93 per cent.
The semen is discharged as before the operation, but in a slightly less quantity, and it is, of course, sterile from the lack of spermatozoa.
The eunuch cannot penetrate and he cannot form any semen; he is impotent; the vasectomized man can penetrate, and he forms a semen which is sterile.
When the act is normal there is a complete emptying of the tract of semen and of the blood engorgement; in coitus interruptus there is incomplete ejaculation and only partial deplethorization.
As the nucleus of the spermatozoon is too small to carry the spirochete of syphilis, the infection is through the semen in a manner not yet clear to us.
The semen of such patients is usually devoid of spermatozoa.
The second group says the vasectomized man is incapable of performing an act de se apta ad generationem because his semen lacks the essential spermatozoa.
The act is also against the intrinsic end of the semen, which is to generate; and since the semencannot possibly effect its end, the conjugal act degenerates into an equivalent of onanism.
How, then, was Erasistratus unaware of it, if the primary function of the semen be to draw to itself a due proportion of blood?
In genesis (embryogeny) the semen is the active, and the menstrual blood the passive, principle.
What is this third overseer of animal generation that we are to look for, which will furnish the semen with a due amount of blood?
Here, however, we must pay attention and take care not unwittingly to credit the semen with reason and intelligence; if we were to do this, we would be making neither semen nor a nature, but an actual living animal.
Galen attributed to the sperma or semen what we should to the fertilized ovum: to him the maternal contribution is purely passive--mere food for the sperm.
Note inadequate analogy of semen with fertilised seeds of plants (i.
Similarly the canal of the uterus affords an entrance to the semen and an exit to the foetus.
A strong will can often calm the nerves which regulate the blood supply, and order the distended veins of the penis to retract and subside without wasting the semen in an ejaculation.
In the cervix uteri is the foramen by which the woman both passes the monthly flux and receives the semen of the husband.
When the semen is extruded on the third day and the woman consequently fails to conceive, take small soft feathers and tie them together, and foment the uterus as we do the eyes.
