An account of two glands and their excretory ducts lately discover'd in human bodies [with 'Epistola R. Vieussens ... de organo auditus' and 'A letter from W. Musgrave to Dr. Sloane, being an argument for the more frequent use of laryngotomy'] / [William Cowper].

  • Cowper, William, 1666-1709
Date:
1699
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Credit: An account of two glands and their excretory ducts lately discover'd in human bodies [with 'Epistola R. Vieussens ... de organo auditus' and 'A letter from W. Musgrave to Dr. Sloane, being an argument for the more frequent use of laryngotomy'] / [William Cowper]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    C 3<*5 ] the Bulb of its Cavernous Body : (ib. i.) Thefe Glands are of a depreft Oval Figure, nor exceeding the magnitude of a fmall French Bean. After thofe parts of die Mufculus Accelerator (ib. / /) are removed, which pafs over tliefe Glands, you may feel them placed like two hard Bodies on each fide the Urethra. They incline to a yellowifh colour like that of the Froftates. Their Excretory Duds appear on their internal Sur¬ face (Fig. x. A. b ) next the inner Membrane of the Urethra (Fig. z. C) whence they defcend about half an Inch in length before they grow lefs and pierce diat Membrane obliquely at their opening into the Urethra, (ib D.) in which they difcharge their fepa- rated Liquor. After opening the upper part of the Urethra towards the Dorfum Penis and expanding its inner Membrane, if you comprels tliefe Glands, you may lee their Liquor iffue from two diftind Ori¬ fices, which is very Tranfparent and Tenacious: tliefe two Orifices open into the Urethra juft below its bend¬ ing under the Off a Pubis in the Perinnum. The Artifice of Nature is very extraordinary in thus placing thefe Glands and their Excretory Duds, fince on the Eredion of the Penis and the diftenfion of the Bulb of the Cavernous Body of the Urethra, they are thereby neceflarily compreft, and the Liquor contain’d in their Excretory Duds forced through their two Ori¬ fices into the Cavity of the Urethra : be (ides this, that part of the Mufculus Accelerator (mention d above) which pafles over thefe Glands, contributes to this Compreflion. It feems requifite fuch Agents fhould Confpire in Compreffing thefe Organs, fince the Li¬ quor they feparate is ib very Tenacious ; which con¬ fidence of it is abfolutely neceflary for the Ufes it is employed in.. The.; t