. Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey. the utriculus, passesup and back into the prostate gland. Oneither side of this ridge are the openings 550 Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey. April, 1910 of the seminal ducts, and of the prostatictubules which discharge the prostatic secre-tions, about twenty in number. The transitional epithelial lining of thebladder is continued into the urethra asfar as the lower third of the prostate,where it changes to the columnar type,which extends, as such, to within .5 cm. ofthe meatus. Here it meets the squamousepithelium of the surface of th
. Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey. the utriculus, passesup and back into the prostate gland. Oneither side of this ridge are the openings 550 Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey. April, 1910 of the seminal ducts, and of the prostatictubules which discharge the prostatic secre-tions, about twenty in number. The transitional epithelial lining of thebladder is continued into the urethra asfar as the lower third of the prostate,where it changes to the columnar type,which extends, as such, to within .5 cm. ofthe meatus. Here it meets the squamousepithelium of the surface of the glanswhich is reflected into the urethra for thisdistance. The mucosa contains many mucousglands (glands of Littre) which open intothe lacunae as well as on the free surface ofthe urethral lumen. The posterior quarterof the urethra, from the vesicle orifice tothe openings of Cowpers ducts, has astrong muscularis mucosae. To understand the pathology of strictureof the common sort, that is of gonorrhealorigin, we must go back to its precursor,. (After Mori a III. chronic gonorrheal urethritis. The gon-ococcus, an intra-cellular organism, may in-fest not only the columnar epithelium of theurethra and its glands, but the sub-epithel-ial tissue as well, and that to a considerabledepth. Following this, and sometimes per-sisting long after the gonococcus has diedout, is a round celled infiltration. Whetherthese round cells are of leucocytic or con-nective tissue origin we can let the path-ologists fight out among themselves. Whatconcerns us, as urologists, is, how far it willpersist and how far it is going to it does persist long enough the in-evitable change common to persistent in-filtrations, slowly comes on. The round cells take on the spindle shape of connectivetissue, they begin to manufacture the char-acteristic inter-cellular substance of thattissue. As the inter-cellular product oftheir activity increases, the cells themselvesdiminish in number, and at la
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