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 . ents. Were these pages intended only for the surgery, insteadof the public, the annexed wood cuts would be unnecessa-ry, medical men being conversant with the inconveniencein question; but all the world not beingblessed with similar anatomical information,the sketches are presented. The upper onerepresents the relative situation of the fe-male urethra (1), and the contracted orifice
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 . ents. Were these pages intended only for the surgery, insteadof the public, the annexed wood cuts would be unnecessa-ry, medical men being conversant with the inconveniencein question; but all the world not beingblessed with similar anatomical information,the sketches are presented. The upper onerepresents the relative situation of the fe-male urethra (1), and the contracted orificeof the hymen (2). In the cases of hardenedobstruction, where the hymen assumes an al-most cartilaginous texture, the attempts atmarital consummation arefruitless, and often give riseto severe local infirmity, on the otherhand, is easily and painlesslyremovable by surgical skill. The lowerdrawing represents a hymen with two aper-tures (2), which, if broken down by vio-lence, leaves a troublesome lacerated surgeons assistance is indispensable. Where hermaphroditism exists, the sex isusually more masculine; it is a vulgar errorto suppose that the two sexes exist entire, and that they.
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