. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology. Anatomy; Physiology; Zoology. 152 PROSTATE GLAND. to the vesiculae seminales of man ; bat in the hare as an uterus for the reception of semen, as the female uterus receives the ovule. A more minute examination of this hag strengthens this conviction. Its orifice is transverse, and represents an os tinea; in the arrangement of its labia ; 2dly, there is an evident distinction in the mucous lining of its neck and fundus, it being arranged in five or six longitudinal folds, so as to form a true arbor vitae, and seems covered with muscular fibres. The fo
. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology. Anatomy; Physiology; Zoology. 152 PROSTATE GLAND. to the vesiculae seminales of man ; bat in the hare as an uterus for the reception of semen, as the female uterus receives the ovule. A more minute examination of this hag strengthens this conviction. Its orifice is transverse, and represents an os tinea; in the arrangement of its labia ; 2dly, there is an evident distinction in the mucous lining of its neck and fundus, it being arranged in five or six longitudinal folds, so as to form a true arbor vitae, and seems covered with muscular fibres. The following are the deductions of Huschke :—1st, That the utriculus is a male uterus; 2dly, that it is originally a recep- tacle of seminal fluid ; 3dly, that its develop- ment is in the inverse ratio of the develop- ment of the vesiculas seminales and prostate gland in man ; 4thly, that it is a vestige of a structure existing in the foetus, and in man is really of no use whatever. Cuvier has described a long membranous canal with a spherical extremity, situated be- tween the two vasa deferentia in the solipeds. This long bag opens on to the urethra, in front of the common orifices of the vasa defe- rentia and vesiculae seminales, rather to the left side. A fluid of the consistency of honey can be squeezed out of it. This is evidently the utriculus. In an interesting case of hypospadias, a case peculiarly favourable for the investiga- tion, Professor Theile, of Berne, most care- fully examined the utriculus, and described its anatomical relations. 1 take the following account of this examination from the first number of the " British and Foreign Medico- Chirurgical Review:" — " The scrotum con- tained two testicles; the vasa deferentia, vesiculae seminales, and prostate gland were present. The latter was fourteen lines long, eight and a- half thick, and sixteen broad. Theile found a canal originating in the usual opening on the utriculus, run backwards for an in
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