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 . 200 A POPULAR TREATISE ON THE URINE. AVe shall conclude our treatise by a few remarks ondiseases of the urine, to which many are subject. Beforeproceeding to speak of them, it is necessary, for a full un-derstanding of the subject, to state, that the urine is se-creted by two bodies called kidneys, placed one on each(side of the back-bone, as is shown in the cut. After be-. 1 — 1. T
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 . 200 A POPULAR TREATISE ON THE URINE. AVe shall conclude our treatise by a few remarks ondiseases of the urine, to which many are subject. Beforeproceeding to speak of them, it is necessary, for a full un-derstanding of the subject, to state, that the urine is se-creted by two bodies called kidneys, placed one on each(side of the back-bone, as is shown in the cut. After be-. 1 — 1. The Lungs. 2. The —3. The —4. The Ureters. 5. The Bladder, ing formed, the urine passes through the ureters into thebladders whence it is voided, as every one knows, occa-sionally. DISEASES OF THE URINE. 201 The following diagram shows the bladder and its mus-cular coats, and also its neck imbedded in the prostategland. The bladder is seen distended, and, of course, asdetached from the body. The kidneys are also seen—onein its natural state, the other divided to show its innerstructure: the kidneys and their ureters are crossed tosave space in the sketch. 1 The entire kidney.—2. Its cortical, or secreting part.—3. Thepapilla.—4. The The ureter.—fi. The bladder.—7. T-*detrusor muscle.—8. The sphincter muscle—9. Prostate gland.—10. Neck of the bladder. The bladder and adjacent parts are seen more fully inthe diagram at the top of the succeeding page. 202 A POPULAR TREATISE ON
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