A treatise on obstructed and inflamed hernia : and on mechanical obstructions of the bowels internally, and also an appendix, containing a brief statement of the cause of difference in size in the male and female bladder / by Henry Stephens.

Date:
1829
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Credit: A treatise on obstructed and inflamed hernia : and on mechanical obstructions of the bowels internally, and also an appendix, containing a brief statement of the cause of difference in size in the male and female bladder / by Henry Stephens. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    tive to the difference in size between the male and female bladder. As I shall not, in the present edition, reprint that part, I shall briefly notice it in this place. It had been supposed, that the frequent longer retention of the urine in females, from motives of dehcacy, was the cause of the increased size of the bladder in them ; but, (as I there shewed) this increased size is occasioned by preg- nancy, a fact which is elucidated by the circumstance that the bladder of all female animals which have pro- duced young, is larger than that of the male; and that, this increased size does not exist in those animals which have never been with young, or in those which have been spayed. FINIS.
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