The homopathic guide : in all diseases of the urinary and sexual organs, including the derangements caused by onanism and sexual escesses, with a strict regard to the present demands of medical science, and accompanied by an appendix on the use of electro-magnetism in the treatment of these diseases / by Wm. Gollmann. Translated, with additions, by Chas. J. Hempel.

  • Gollmann, Wilhelm.
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1855, ©1854
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Credit: The homopathic guide : in all diseases of the urinary and sexual organs, including the derangements caused by onanism and sexual escesses, with a strict regard to the present demands of medical science, and accompanied by an appendix on the use of electro-magnetism in the treatment of these diseases / by Wm. Gollmann. Translated, with additions, by Chas. J. Hempel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the peritoneum, so that only the lower portion of the organ can be cut into without injuring the peritoneal covering. Posteriorly, the bladder is bounded by the rectum in the male, and by the uterus in the female. To the lower surface of the bladder in the male are attached the seminal vesicles and the excretory ducts carrying the semen from the testicles to the vesicles. The superior extremity of the bladder is attached to the umbilicus by means of the urachus, a strong fibrous band arising from the obliteration of the umbilical vesicle, a canal that is found only in the foetus. The internal surface of the bladder shows numerous folds of the mucous membrane, which assume a smooth appearance when distended; moreover, we discover numerous muscular bundles, forming prominences or trabecule and determining the contractile power of the bladder. At the lower extremity of the bladder we see three orifices, those of the ureters and the opening of the bladder into the urethra. This portion of the bladder is termed the neck of the bladder. The bladder is composed of three coats. The outer coat is a continuation of the peritoneum, and is, therefore, a serous sac covering the bladder only partially, as stated before; the middle or muscular coat is composed of longitudinal and circular muscular fibres, which cross each other. The third coat is a thin mucous membrane, which dips into the urethra. Besides these various parts, the bladder is furnished with numerous nerves and blood-vessels. IV. The Urethra. The urethra is the excretory canal of the bladder, and is solely formed of the cellular and mucous tissues of this organ. The male urethra differing essentially from the female, they have to be described separately. The male urethra is a canal of from six to eight inches long, and from two to three lines wide, but can be suf- ficiently dilated to admit of the passage of instruments of four lines in size in operations for stone in the bladder.