A manual for students who are preparing for examination at Apothecaries' Hall / John Steggall.

  • Steggall, John, 1795?-1871.
Date:
1831
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Credit: A manual for students who are preparing for examination at Apothecaries' Hall / John Steggall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    closely adheres, and gradually approaches its fellow of the opposite side; it terminates in the vesicula seminalis, of the same side. 296. The vesicule seminales are two small oblong membranous reservoirs, situated at the lower and under part of the bladder. Each vesicula is formed by the convolutions of one tube, which pierces the prostate gland, and opens into the urethra. 297. The prostate gland is a firm glandular body, somewhat of the shape of a horsechesnut, situated at the neck of the bladder; through its substance the urethra passes. Its ducts, ten or twelve in number, open into the urethra. 298. The spermatic cord is composed of the spermatic artery and veins, the spermatic nerves, lymphatics,and thevas deferens,which areconnected together by cellular substance, and covered by the eremaster muscle. 299. The wterus is a hollow viscus, situated in the female pelvis, between the bladder and rectum. It is divided into a fundus, body, and a cervix. 300. It is composed of three coats: an external or peritoneal covering, a muscular, and a villous coat. 301. It has three openings into it: two at the angles of its fundus, leading to the Fallopian tubes; and one at its neck, leading to the vagina. | ! 302. The appendages of the uterus are, the ligamenta lata, hgamenta rotunda, ovaria, Fallopian tubes, and vagina. 303. The ligamenta lata are two doublings of the peritoneum, sent off from the edges of the uterus to be fixed to the sides of the pelvis. They contain and support the ovaria, Fallopian tubes,