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

by Robert James Culverwell

a. Body of the Testicle.

b. Commencement of the Epididymis.

c. End of ditto.

d. Vas Deferens.

In the larger figure the testicle is displayed as enveloped by its coverings, and in the lesser as stripped of them. The references serve for both.

We now come to speak of the Vesiculæ Seminales. It was just observed, that the Vasa Deferentia terminated in these structures. They are attached to the lowest and back part of the bladder, behind the Prostate Gland. The following drawing is the prelude to the description—It represents the Prostate Gland, the Vesiculæ Seminales and the Bladder.

a, a. Prostate Gland. b. Gland cut away to show the Ducts of the Vesiculæ. c. Ends of the Ducts. d, d. Cells of the Vesiculæ. e. Left Vas Deferens, also cut open to show its connexion with the Vesiculæ. f. Right Vas Deferens. g, g. Openings of the Vas Deferens and Vesiculæ into the Urethra. h. Bladder. i. Ureter. View larger image

a, a. Prostate Gland.

b. Gland cut away to show the Ducts of the Vesiculæ.