Description of a human male monster : illustrated by tables, with remarks.

  • Alexander Monro
Date:
[1792]
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Credit: Description of a human male monster : illustrated by tables, with remarks. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HUMAN MALE M0NS TER. 5 had an urachus coining from it. See fig. 3. W. W. Y. and fig. 2. W. X. Y. There was only one teftis, fituated in the ufual manner, on the left fide. See fig. 2. Z. The proftate gland furrounded, as ufual, the neck of the bladder. See fig. 4. X. The urethra, which was the common paffage for the foeces, as well as for the feminal liquors, and that of the fac refembling the vefica urinaria, was wanting from within an inch of the vefica to within an inch of the extremity of the penis. See fig. 4. V. Y. and fig. 3. F. G. The fpinal marrow was of a conical fhape, with the top or fmall part of the cone at its upper end, and at its lower end it formed a cauda equina. From its two ends and fides, it fent off eighteen pairs of nervesj which, at their origin and in their progrefs, were nearly as 1-arge as they are in a perfedt foe- tus, or where the brain and cerebellum are connected with the Ipinal marrow. See fig. 4. 1. to 16. ru n. The umbilical cord was nearly proportioned to the bulk of the monfter 5 and, at the umbilicus, confided of one vein and two arteries, within which I found red blood. The vein was more capacious than both arteries conjoined ; and, as foon as it entered the abdomen, was divided into various branches, which were difperfed upon all parts of the body. See fig. 3. a, b, c, d, e,f, g; fig. 2. h, ij fig. 4. h, i. Vessels, every where, accompanied the branches of the umbilical vein, correfponding with them in fize, as well as tuation and, joining together, formed trunks, from which, at the fides of the pelvis, two veffels were continued, one of them on each fide of the vefica urinaria and urachus, to the umbili- cus, which they perforated, and then went, along the umbi- lical cord, towards the placenta, refembling the umbilical arte* ries. See fig. 3. h7 i, k} /, m; fig. 4. h7 Is fig. 2. h, i. B Unluckily *
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