The pathology and treatment of stricture of the urethra, both in the male and female : Being the treatise for which the Jacksonian Prize, for the year 1852, was awarded by the College of Surgeons of England. / By Henry Thompson.

  • Thompson, Henry, Sir, 1820-1904.
Date:
MDCCCIV. [1854]
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Credit: The pathology and treatment of stricture of the urethra, both in the male and female : Being the treatise for which the Jacksonian Prize, for the year 1852, was awarded by the College of Surgeons of England. / By Henry Thompson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    wards. Behind these it has a yellowish tint, as it passes backwards into the bladder. The whole surface described is constantly lubricated with mucus secreted by the glandular structures in its walls. It is also exceedingly vascular. Mention has been made of the rugous character of its mucous membrane. This condition applies to all that which is anterior to the prostatic portion, where no rugae exist. In the membranous and bulbous Its rug®, parts they abound, more especially in the latter, where the membrane is disposed in longitudinal folds, in number from three or four to eight or nine, and here many small papillae may be seen upon them. Towards the middle of the spongy portion they are much less developed, but they again become prominent in the neighbourhood of the glans. From their close lateral approximation to each other, Its trans- under ordinary circumstances, the canal is closed, or nearly ^'nsc sec' so, and presents an appearance, more or less stellate, on transverse section.* Nearer to the glans, however, the section is almost transverse in form. The vascularity of the membrane is rendered very obvious its vessels, by the use of a fine injection, which gives a bright Ver- million colour to it throughout. Mr. Quekett’s injected preparations demonstrate vessels lying longitudinally, more particularly in the furrows, between the rugte found in the bulbous portion; while nearer to the meatus, where rugae can scarcely be said to exist, the membrane has somewhat of a villous character, and a looped capillary may be seen in each of these little prominences. Blood is supplied to the urethra through small branches from the “ artery to the bulb,” some of which pass through the substance of the corpus spon- giosum to reach it, where they form plexuses beneath the basement membrane, and around the lacunae and glandular crypts, communicating freely among themselves and at the meatus externus, with small branches of the dorsal artery of the penis. The nerve to the bulb also sends branches of supply to Its nerves. * Guthrie, op. cit. p. 20. Figured also by Bauer in the Plates Nos. 1, 2, and 4, in the third volume of Sir Evd. Home’s work on Stricture. 1821.