Identifier: 32514357.5997.emory.edu
Title: The male generative organs in health and disease, from infancy to old age (electronic resource): being a complete practical treatise on the anatomy and physiology of the male system adapted for every man's own private use
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: Hollick, Frederick, 1818-1900
Subjects: Generative organs Genitalia, Male Genital Diseases, Male Reproduction Sexual Dysfunction, Physiological
Publisher: New York : T.W. Strong, 98 Nassau Street. Boston: G.W. Cottrell, 64 Cornhill
Contributing Library: Emory University, Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Emory University, Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library

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y are observed toundergo a regular series of changes similar to thoseof the female ovary. When first observed theyare round and merely contain a number of smallgranules, which are the Animalcules, in a rudimen-tary state. At a further stage these granules arefound to be developed into small Animacules, whilethe containing vesicles have expanded and becomeelongated, or egg-shaped. Finally the vesicle breaksopen at one end, and the Animacules escape, beingat first very small and gradually growing after,wards to the size we ordinarily see them. The figures in the accompanying plate represent 48 PLATE V. The Seminal Animalcule in the Human Subject. 1 One of the Vesicles, containing the Animalcules in arudimentary state, coiled up. 2 The Vesicle broken open, and the Animalcules escaping. 8 and 4. Perfect Animalcules.—a. Is the stomach and in-testines. The two round white spots at the top, indicatethe mouth and the sucker by which it attaches itselfThese are magnified many thousand times.
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THE MALE SYSTEM. 51 the form of the Zoospermes and the changes inthe vesicles, as seen under the microscope, in thehuman being. In different beings the form both of the Vesicleand the AnimaculEe varies much, and occasionallythe Zoospermes undergo some remarkable meta-morphoses before assuming their final form. In the human being there are about thirty Zoo-spermes in each vesicle, but in some beings thereare more, and in others not so many. The numberof Vesicles varies very much, at different times,even in the same individual. The precise size of the Zoospermes is of coursedifficult to ascertain, but Mr. Ruchet estimatestheir length at about the ten thousandth part of anordinary hair, and their weight at about the hundredand forty thousand millionth part of a grain iA spot as large as a mustard seed, he remarks,will sometimes contain fifty thousand of them, ormore. Notwithstanding this extreme minuteness we arenow tolerably well acquainted with their peculiari-ties of structure, and ev

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