Volume 2

Principles of anatomy and physiology ... / [John Aitken].

  • Aitken, John, -1790.
Date:
1786
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Credit: Principles of anatomy and physiology ... / [John Aitken]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    flanting penetration has the effect of valves, and prevents regurgitation. In fome rare cafes two ureters have been’ obferved on one fide. Through their whole courfe the ureters lie behind the peritonzeum. The Bladder of Urine. This (vefica urinaria) is a large oval cyft or bag, fituated in the anterior part of the pel- vis, immediately behind the bodies of the ofla, pubis, which are fomewhat excavated for its reception, The upper part or bottom (fundus) is co-~ vered with the peritonzeum, reflected from the adjacent furfaces; the pofterior part of ‘its middle or body (corpus) is likewife covered by this membrane, from which it is reflected, in the male, upon the rectum, and, in the fe- male, upon the uterus. The under part or neck (cervix) is furrounded with cellular fub- ftance, and terminates forwards, immediately behind the arch of the pubes, in a contraction or tube, called urethra. The pofterior and inferior part of the cer- vix refts on the rectum in the male, and on the vagina in the female; cellular fubftance alone being interpofed : a circumftance to be carefully remembered by the furgeon, efpe- cially the lithotomitft. The