. On sterility in the male and female, its causes and treatment. ngorgements of the epididymis, pros-tate gland, vesicles, or canals, which carry the semi-nal fluid, generally cause this affection. If it were possible to conceive of continence so pro-longed as to cause this symptom, the first remedywould doubtless be to excite the emission of semen ;but as the disease is usually symptomatic, we must tryto remove the causes by the different remedies for IN THE MALE AND FEMALE. 117 each. (See diseases of the vasa deferentia, urethra,&c.) 7. Ossification of the Testes,—The osseous transfor-mation
. On sterility in the male and female, its causes and treatment. ngorgements of the epididymis, pros-tate gland, vesicles, or canals, which carry the semi-nal fluid, generally cause this affection. If it were possible to conceive of continence so pro-longed as to cause this symptom, the first remedywould doubtless be to excite the emission of semen ;but as the disease is usually symptomatic, we must tryto remove the causes by the different remedies for IN THE MALE AND FEMALE. 117 each. (See diseases of the vasa deferentia, urethra,&c.) 7. Ossification of the Testes,—The osseous transfor-mation of the testes is not very rare in persons ad-vanced in life, and have been detected several times inadults after schirrous induration of these organs, andeven too in young men who had scarcely attained theperiod of puberty. Prof. Dubois castrated a youngman eighteen years old, whose testicles were entirelyossified in the centre. This accident, which necessa-rily causes sterility, is incurable. 8. Obstruction of the Vasa Deferentia.—I am not [Fig. o, a. Portions of the vasa deferentia, whose sides are thick, and cavityvery narrow. 6, 5. Portions of the same canals, with less thick sides,and larger cavity, c, c. Extremity of each vas deferens, grows narrowagain where it unites with the vesicnlse seminales and the ejaculatory ca-nal, rf, d. d, d. Vesiculae seminales inflated, e, e. Their arteries. /,/,/.Portion of the peritoneum covering the posterior part of the vesiculseseminales. g, g. Ejaculator canals.—(Graaf.) 118 STERILITY CAUSES TREATMENT^ aware that pathological anatomy has yet noticed thismorbid state. If, however, we bear in mind the length,tortuousness, and excessive smallness, of the vasa def-erentia, as seen in the cut, especially from the epididy-mis to their entrance into the abdomen, we canreadily conceive of the possibility of their have suspected it more than once in those individualswho after several inflammations of the testes and s
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