Porneiopathology : a popular treatise on venereal and other diseases of the male and female genital system : with remarks on impotence, onanism, sterility, piles, and gravel, and prescriptions for their treatment . t open to showits connexion withthe Vesiculse. /. Right Vas Deferens. g, Openings of theVas Deferens and Ve-sicnlas into the Ure-thra. h Bladder. t. Ureter. The Vesiculse Seminales appear like two cellular have two coats, the one called nervous, and the in-ner the cellular, a membrane divided into folds or use of the vesiculse is supposed to be, to act as re
Porneiopathology : a popular treatise on venereal and other diseases of the male and female genital system : with remarks on impotence, onanism, sterility, piles, and gravel, and prescriptions for their treatment . t open to showits connexion withthe Vesiculse. /. Right Vas Deferens. g, Openings of theVas Deferens and Ve-sicnlas into the Ure-thra. h Bladder. t. Ureter. The Vesiculse Seminales appear like two cellular have two coats, the one called nervous, and the in-ner the cellular, a membrane divided into folds or use of the vesiculse is supposed to be, to act as reser-voirs for the semen; but there are different opinions uponthe subject, some contending that they furnish a fluid, notspermatic, but merely as an addenda to the seminal secre-tion ; whereas others, who have examined the vesiculse ofpersons who have suddenly died, have discovered all theessential qualities of the male seed therein; and, in fact,physiologists, who direct researches in these matters, ad-vise such examinations as the surest means of obtaining,in a state of purity, the seminal fluid. The Male Semen is a fluid of a starch-ish consistencyand of a whitish color. It has a peculiar odor, like that. 0J» VENEREAL DISEASES. of a bone while being filed—of a styptic and rather acridtaste, (for physiologists use more senses than one in theseresearches), and of greater specific gravity than any oth-er fluid of the body. Shortly after its escape, it be-comes liquid and translucent; if suffered to evaporate,itdries into scurfy-looking substance. By being examinedthrough a powerful microscope it is ascertained to be ani-mated by an infinite number of animalcules ; but they areonly present in healthy semen, and consequently that factis taken as a criterion of the virility of the secretion. President Wagner thus describes the germe of future ani-mal life : The seminal granules are colorless bodies withdark outlines, round and somewhat flattened in shape, andmeasuring from 1-30
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