Identifier: plainhometalkabo00foot (find matches)
Title: Plain home talk about the human system--the habits of men and women--the cause and prevention of disease--our sexual relations and social natures
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Foote. Edward B(liss), 1829-1906. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Marriage
Publisher: New York : Murray Hill publishing company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ofthe bladder and bend down and connect with the seminal vessels.(Pause a few moments andlook over Fig. 139 with its ex-planations.) Instead thereforeof the testicles participatingat all in the sexual act, theyare comparatively at rest, andat the climax of amativeexcitement, their secretionswhich have been accumulatedin the spermatic vessels, arepropelled outward by whatare called ejaculatory ducts,and passing the prostate andCowpers glands are mixedwith the secretions of these,which contributions add con-siderably to the volume of thesemen. Propelled by the ejacu-latory ducts and the simultane-ous spasmodic contractions ofthe urethra, the seminal fluidsare emitted with much force indistinct jets from the mouth ofthe urethra. Considering thecomplexity of the male organsof generation and the abusesto which they are thoughtless-ly subjected, it is not surpri-sing that they are often af-fected by disease. Venereal excesses on the partof the male, are much moredisastrous than those on the
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MALE ORGAN8. 1. One of the testicles. 2. Stands above one of the tubes called thevas deferens (the white line), where it leaves thespermatic cord, and conveys the semen to theseminal vessels marked 3. This tube runs withthe spermatic cord till it reaches the point justbelow 2, when it strikes off by itself and dipsdown to the spermatic vessels marked 3. 4. The penis with the urethra passing throughit; 5, one of the kidneys ; 6, one of the r.reterswhich conveys the urine from the kidneys tothe bladder ; T, the bladder; S, the spermaticcord; 9, the aorta from which the testicle derives its supply of blood ; 10, the rectum. part of the female. The reason for this is that the spermatic secre-tions are composed of the moet vital properties which the blood is 530 PKIVATE WORDS FOR MEN. capable of imparting. A drop of semen, such as may be taken upon the point of a pin and placed under the microscope, presents hun-dreds of those little animalcules called spermatozoa, and from thisfact it may

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