On sterility in the male and female : its causes and treatment / By the Chevalier V. Mondat ... Tr. from the 5th French ed.

  • Vincent-Marie Mondat
Date:
1844
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Credit: On sterility in the male and female : its causes and treatment / By the Chevalier V. Mondat ... Tr. from the 5th French ed. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Lamar Soutter Library, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

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    tory passages into the urethra. The secretion of this fluid seems to be increased by that from the glands of Cowper, situated in front of the prostate. Nature, to impart to these fluids a direction favor- able to their emission, has placed at the commencement of the urethra, before the neck of the bladder, at the point where their excretory ducts open, a sort of dike {verumontanum) which is designed to prevent the re- turn of these fluids on the side toward the bladder, and is seen in the annexed cut (fig. 8). The muscles which, by their action, aid the excretion or projection of the semen are, the levatores ani, the hulho- and ischio' cavernosusy and the transversus jperinei muscles. The [Fig. 8.] a. The inner surface of the bladder, showing the direction of the mus- cular fibres, b. The opening of the right ureter into the bladder whence the urine issues, c, c. The prostate gland cut through, and its sides ex- hibited, d. The urethra, c. Verumontanum. /,/. Orifices of the sem- inal ducts, marked by twigs inserted therein; the other points mark the orifices from the prostate and other glands.
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