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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    1.0 strong layer of yellowish circular fibres of muscular and elastic tissue. This layer is connected above with the sphincter vesicce, where also it is most developed, whilst below it becomes gradually thinner, and below the caput gallinaginis is either lost or appears only in very small quan- tities. On removing the several muscular layers, we come at last to the proper glandular tissue of the prostate, of which individual lobes penetrate among the circular fibres just mentioned, their excretory ducts passing through the longitudinal fibres. “ In the membranous parts of the urethra the smooth muscular tissue is less developed. Under the mucous mem- brane, whose cellular tissue is remarkable for abundance of elastic fibres, there is a layer of longitudinal fibres, which are connected with those of the prostatic portion. These fibres consist for the most part of fibro-cellular tissue, with nucleus-fibres, and include, in small numbers, undulating, delicate, and curved, contracting fibre-cells (of the nature of smooth muscular fibres), which may be, in part, isolated. External to these longitudinal fibres, there is a strong layer of transverse fibres, which belong for the most part to the musculus urethralis. Some of those, however, especially those belonging to the inner layer, display some strong bundles of smooth muscular fibres, together with fibro-cellular tissue and nucleus-fibres, and a partial mixture of fasciculi of the transversely striated fibres of the musculus urethralis. “ The smooth muscular fibres are generally still less deve- loped in the spongy portion of the urethra. In some cases they appear in exactly the same manner as the longitudinal fibres in the membranous portion ; in other cases longitu- dinal fibres may be seen, but no muscular tissue can be found mingled Avith the cellular tissue and nucleus-fibres of Avhich they consist. At a certain depth, however, some longitudinal fibres are distinguishable, with a more or less considerable admixture of smooth muscle, which fibres cannot be regarded as beams of the corpus cavernosum urethrae (corpus spongiosum), since they have no venous