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Identifier: obstetricsscienc01meig (find matches)
Title: Obstetrics: the science and the art
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Meigs, Charles D. (Charles Delucena), 1792-1869
Subjects: Obstetrics Obstetrics
Publisher: Philadelphia. Lea
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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The aboveaccount, I here give copies of Dr Kobelts figures, and in Fig. 34: I present his magnified drawing of the clitoris, representing that Fg- ^4. body, however, with the crus removed, so that only the body of the organ with its glans is exhibited. Let the Student compare the glans with that of the male organ, and he will see that the structures are very exactly alike, with the exception that there is no canal of an urethra in the female clitoris. In fact, the canal of the urethra is lower down; and yet it is true that when the urine does flow, it jets forth between the two bulbs of the vestibule, which seem to surround the urethral orifice. The great dorsal vein and the artery are marked in the drawing — and the copious convolutions of blood vessels seen passing upwards from below, and which are called pars intermedia, are channels that convey the blood from the bulbs of the vestibule upwards and conduct it into the capillaries of the glans clitoridis just in the same way as the blood vessels in ...'
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... the external organs. The corpus spongiosum leads the blood from the bulb of the male out avards to tbe glans penis at the extremity of tbe corpora cavernosa. In Fig. 35 is represented the arcli of the pubis and its sympbysis, on which is seen the clitoris, bent downwards at an acute angle. Beneath the crown of the arch, and on each crus, is lying a bulb a of the vestibule, from each of which, on the right and the left, is seen mounting upwards the network or plexus of blood vessels that conduct the blood of the bulbs into the glans of the clitoris. If these bulbs become turgid with blood, and then are subjected to pressure by the constrictor muscle underneath which they lie, the blood is forced by jets through the pars intermedia up into the glans, which becoming thus erected, the erotic life is strongly developed in it, and so communicated to the reproductive system. Fig. 35.

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