A critical enquiry into the manner of treating the diseases of the urethra, with an improved method of cure / by Jesse Foot.

  • Foot, Jesse, 1744-1826.
Date:
[1781?]
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Credit: A critical enquiry into the manner of treating the diseases of the urethra, with an improved method of cure / by Jesse Foot. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    I come now to give a fhort anotomical defcrip- tion of the urinal canal, in order to form a more diftind and clear idea of thofe feveral obftru&ions, which, when formed, caufe a fuppreffion of the urine, often divert the ftream of it, and by which it makes a way through fome fiftulous channel, con- tinually laying wafte and committing deftrucftion on the parts along its unnatural rout. The infide of the urinal canal, is covered by an exquifite fine and delicate membrane, very fufceptible, and full of capillary blood-vefiels •, on the furface of this membrane are found a great many little orifices, oblong, known generally by the name of lacunae, various in their fizes. Thefe lacunae are the ex- cretory ducts of as many fmall glands fpread up and down the urethral fubftance. They pafs into the fpungy fubftance of the Urethra to the convex fide of the internal urethral membrane, and open obliquely from behind forward, into the great canal. Their edges are of a femi-lunar or crefcent form, on account of their oblique opening. There are two of thefe lacunae, defcribed by Morgagni, which are more confiderable than the reft, fituated near the glans penis, the one under the froenum, the pther near the fofilila naviqularis. The gland near