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“ This newly acquired anatomical fact enables us very clearly to understand the nature of a disease, which It was not possible we could have a correct idea of, when we were ignorant of the existence of the part in which it takes place. ”

“ Besides this effect of the lateral parts swelling, a small portion of it, which lies behind the very beginning of the urethra swells forward like a point, as it were, into the bladder; acting like a valve to the mouth of the urethra, which can be seen, even when the swelling is not considerable, by looking on the mouth of the urethra, from the cavity of the bladder, in the dead body. It sometimes increases so much, as to form a tumour projecting into the cavity of the bladder some inches. ”

“ In one there was no apparent glandular substance, but a mass of condensed cellular membrane: this, however, on being cut into, differed from the surrounding fat. In another there was a lobe blended laterally with the sides of the prostate gland. These facts are mentioned in proof of its not being always of the same size nor having exactly the same appearance; this is found also to be the case with Cowper's glands, they are sometimes large and distinct; in other subjects are scarcely to be detected, and in others again are in all the intermediate states. ”

“ He finds that the organs, which have been hitherto taken for kidneys in supposed females, are in reality testicles, and that the supposed males are really fish without spawn, in consequence of their not breeding two seasons together. ”

“ These tumours, as they obstruct the passage of the urine, have attracted the attention of all anatomical surgeons, from the time of Morgagni to the present day. Their appearance has been accurately described, and specimens of them in different degrees of enlargement are preserved in every collection of morbid parts. ”