Identifier: peoplescommonsen00pierrich (find matches)
Title: The people's common sense medical adviser in plain English, or, Medicine simplified
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Pierce, R. V. (Ray Vaughn), 1840-1914
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Medicine
Publisher: Buffalo, N.Y. : World's Dispensary Printing-Office and Bindery
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tes is to The abuse and consequent diseases of the generative organs of (he female haven fuUv considered in a preceding part of this volume. (See Masturbation a been Fruitful Cause of Disease in Women. ) ABUSE OK THE MALE UEPUODUOTIVK ORGANS. 791 secrete sperm (semcJi), a vital, quickening Hiiid, ttf a whilisli colorand peculiar odor. 17H6. Develoiiiiieiit of the Testicle!-^ in (heAbcloilieil. The testicles, at an early period of intro-uteriuelife, are in the abdomen of the fcetus, and directly beneath thekidneys. At the fifth or sixth month of pregnancy, they passdownward to the loMer part of the alidonicn, and each testicle,from its lower part, sends forth a cord which is composed of cel-lular tissue and ligamentous fibers, and called the gubaritcuMilutntestis. Each cord passes through the inguinal canal, which isonly two inclies in length, proceeds obliquely downward, inward,and forward, out of the lower part of the abdomen, and termi-nates in the bottomof the scrotum. In Fig. 2U.*
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the eighth month ofpregnancy, the testi-cles pass through theabdominal canals andreach the base of thescrotum, two or threeweeks before birth.Occasionalh/, one orboth are retained ins the body until the fif-teenth or seventeenthyear (although theyseldom permaneti tlyremain). This circum-stance, however, doesnot always jjreventprocreation. 1787. 8triietiircor the Testicle. Fig. 214 is an excellentillustration of the in-ternal structtire of the human testicle, when its several parts aremade distinct by being injected with mercury,and then so dissected A rcprcfenUitioii of the intciTial siructurc of aTesticle partially unraveled. • The thirlv-lwo ilistincl rcjircscnlntlons plvcn in the Colorcil Plates, when addedto the i>recu(fiiig niimhcruf Woo<l-onKiivin(;H, make tliis Fig. 214. 792 COMMON SENSE MEDICAL ADVISEK. as to be exposed to view. The numerals, 1, 2, 2, refer to a bun-dle of seminal tubes, each of which is about seventeen feet longand j^^ of an inch in diameter. As repre

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