Identifier: onsterilityinmal00mond (find matches)
Title: On sterility in the male and female, its causes and treatment
Year: 1844 (1840s)
Authors: Mondat, Vincent Marie
Subjects: Infertility
Publisher: New York, J. S. Redfield Boston, Saxton, Peirce, & Co.
Contributing Library: Univ. of Mass Medical School, Lamar Soutter Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Univ. of Mass Medical School, Lamar Soutter Library

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ater portion. Itsoriranization seems to be a network of small fibrouslayers, belonging to the external membrane, of arteriesand veins, which admit more or less blood when thepenis is erect, and probably of nervous filaments, whichregulate the degree of nervous sensibility in the organ.2. The urethra is a membranous canal extendingfrom the neck of the bladder to the extremity of thepenis, and is shown in the annexed cut (fig. 2): (Fig. 2.) a. Bladder, or receptacle of urine. 6. Ureters, or passages throughwhich the urine comes fromthe kidneys, where it is form-ed, to the bladder. c. Vas deferens, through which thesemen passes from the testi-cle, where it is formed, to theseminal vesicles, where it ismatured. d.d. Openings of ureters into thebladder. €. Prostate gland. /. Orifices of excretory ducts. g. Openings of the seminal ducts. h. Ischio-cavernous muscles. i. Bulb of urethra divided. k. Cowpers glands. ;. Wide part of urethra. m. Narrow part. n. Fossa navicularis, 0. p. Prepuce.
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2* 18 STERILITY CAUSES TREATMENT It serves not only as the execretory passage for thesemen and urine, but also assists in forming the struc-ture* It is situated in the lower part of the penis,in a kind of groove formed by the corpus cavernosum,as shown in fig. 3. (Fig. 3.)

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