Anæsthesia, hospitalism, hermaphroditism and a proposal to stamp out small-pox and other contagious diseases / by Sir James Y. Simpson, Bart. ; edited by Sir W.G. Simpson, Bart.

  • James Young Simpson
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1871
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    HEEMAPHRODITISM. ing to what constitutes the cornua uteri in the human embryo, and m adult quadrupeds. Further, believing that in the detemination of all analogies in type and structure between different organs, the origin and course of the blood-vessels supplying the part ought to be our principal criterion, he was led by the study of the distribu- tion of the branches of the hypogastric arteries to consider the body of the uterus and the vesiculse seminales as repetitions of each other in the two sexes; and, contrary to the opinion of most anatomists, he conceived that the male vasa deferentia strictly correspond with the fundus or cornua uteri, and that the epididymis represents a coiled-up Fallopian tube, or, in other words, that the Fallopian tube is an unrolled epididymis.^ The later investigations, however, of Professor Weber of Leipsic,'' and others, have thrown a new and most important light upon this question in morphological anatomy, by demonstrating that in man and in other males there exists, distinct both from the vesiculse seminales and prostatic gland, a small rudimentary uterus—a true representative, in the unity of organisation between the two sexes, of the more highly developed uterus of the female subject. Early in the last century, Morgagni described in the region of the ca,put gallinaginis in the male urethra a small sac or cell. He named it the Sinus Pocularis,^ and has given two excellent and illustrative drawings of its situation, orifice, and cavity. He found this cell or vesicle in fourteen out of fifteen human subjects that he dissected. Of late years, since the attention of anatomists has been specially recalled to this part by Weber, Huschke, Leuckhart, and others, it has received a variety of appellations, as that of ])roskdic vesicle, prostatic utricle, uterus masculinus, etc. In man this utricular body is a small oblong cul-de-sac, or hol- low, flask-shaped vesicle, situated in the space or angle between the lower ends of the ejaculatory ducts, and opening below by a narrow neck and orifice upon the posterior wall of the urethra, at the anterior edge of the caput gallinaginis or verumontanum. In man its fundus is imbedded between the lobes of the prostate gland, but the lower portion of it, projecting as a narrow ridge on the middle and lower surface of the prostatic portion of-the urethra, constitutes 1 Pldl. Anat. 1822, torn. i. p. 471. 2 Zicsdtze zur Lchrn vom Baue xind den Vcrriclitungcn der Ocsclilcchtsorganc, Leipsic, 1846. 3 Adversaria AiMiomica, iv. 1723, p. 6, tab. figs. 1, 2. It was previously figured 1 by Albiuus in liis Annotal. Acadcvi- iv. tab. iii. fig. 3 ; aiid by Cowper, in liis work entitled Glandularum nupcr detect. Besaijitio, i. 3.