The Seaman's Medical Instructor: In a Course of Lectures on Accidents and Diseases Incident to SeamenFalck, N. D. (Nikolai Detlef)
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The Seaman's Medical Instructor: In a Course of Lectures on Accidents and Diseases Incident to Seamen
Falck, N. D. (Nikolai Detlef)
First aid in illness and injury -- Early works to 1800; Medicine, Popular -- Early works to 1800
The bladder of urine is of a tendinous and nervous texture, and capable
of great extension, but at the same time exquisitely sensible. The neck
of the bladder is very muscular, and by this forms a _sphincter_, or
annular muscle, by which the urine is retained; and as it is of a very
sensible nature, this part is subject to inflammatory constrictions;
great pain, and many evils have there been occasioned, either from
venereal cases, or gravelous complaints.
From the neck of the bladder to the end of the _penis_, is the
_urethra_; which canal serves for the emission of the urine, as well as
that of the seed.
The whole is lined with a number of very little glans, to lubricate and
protect the sensitive lining from the sharpness of the urine.
These are the urinary organs. We will in the next place, proceed to the
organs of generation.
The _testicles_ are the principal instruments for forming the human
seed; they are generally two in number. The testicles receive the blood,
of which they secrete the seed, from the _aorta_, about the same parts,
whence the emulgent arteries project. These arteries run down from the
aorta to the testicles, in a very contorted and winding manner,
accompanied by the veins which return back again from the testicles, and
fix themselves in the ascending _vena cava_. These contorted and
interwoven vessels are called the _spermatic vessels_, which carry the
blood from the arteries in little quantities, and slowly return it again
into the great vein.
Whilst the blood is circulated in the testicles, the seed is secreted in
them; but as it is secreted, it is transported back again from thence by
tubes, called _vasa deferentia_, towards the neck of the bladder, where
there are two irregular bladder-like vessels, wherein the seed is
contained, and kept for use, called the _vesiculæ seminales_.
In these seed bladders the seed is kept for use, till it is wanted. They
are remarkably delicate and nervous; and when they are filled with seed,
they stimulate all the organs of generation with a desire for venery.
The _penis_, or the manly member of generation, is partly covered with
the common skin; the foremost part of which, that covers the glans, is
called the _præpuce_. This _præpuce_ is tied underneath to the substance
of the _penis_, by what is called the _frænum_.
The inner part of the penis is composed of two kinds of bodies, the
_cavernous bodies_ of the _penis_, and the _cavernous body_ of the
_urethra_. The first are bodies enveloped in their peculiar teguments,
and make the greatest part of the _penis_. Each of these bodies takes
its origin from the erecting muscle of the _penis_, which is near the
_pubis_; through each of them goes an artery and a nerve, which spread
themselves through these bodies.
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