Lectures on the structure and physiology of the male urinary and genital organs of the human body : and on the nature and treatment of their diseases : delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons in London, in the summer of the year 1821 / by James Wilson.
- James Wilson
- Date:
- 1821
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Credit: Lectures on the structure and physiology of the male urinary and genital organs of the human body : and on the nature and treatment of their diseases : delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons in London, in the summer of the year 1821 / by James Wilson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![LECT. I.] INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS. $ advantages to be derived in following the arrange- ment of John Hunter, in employing his well- selected and numerous preparations, have hitherto guided, and still continue to guide, my choice of subjects for the lectures which I am appointed to deliver. That great Physiologist had treated fully on the blood and its containing vessels; he had done the same on the structure and diseases of bone; I therefore made these the subjects of my discourses during the two preceding seasons. It is well known to this audience, that the urinary and genital organs had also occupied much of his attention, and that his Museum contained many most valuable specimens illustrative of their na- tural structure, and alteration of that structure by accident or disease. This becomes a sufficient reason for my endeavouring, in the present course, to bring to your recollection those circumstances that relate to the structure and situation of the parts of our bodies which are immediately con- cerned in secreting, containing, or passing the urine and semen, and to extend my remarks oc- casionally to other structures situated in or upon the male pelvis, that from action or vicinity are the most connected with such parts. This will occupy the six Anatomical Lectures; and the diseases affecting these parts will, in all probabi- lity, require most of the nine Surgical Lectures. In addition to the above-mentioned reason, I b2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21084531_0031.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
