File:The Pathology and treatment of venereal diseases (electronic resource)- including the results of recent investigations upon the subject (1866) (14584540109).jpg

Identifier: 04801644.5817.emory.edu
Title: The Pathology and treatment of venereal diseases (electronic resource): including the results of recent investigations upon the subject
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: Bumstead, Freeman J. (Freeman Josiah), 1826-1879
Subjects: Sexually transmitted diseases Sexually transmitted diseases Sexually Transmitted Diseases Venereology
Publisher: Philadelphia : Henry C. Lea
Contributing Library: Emory University, Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Emory University, Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
sis,etc. This septum is composed of two layers, separated by aninterval in wnich are found the membranous portion of the urethra,which necessarily passes through the deep perineal fascia to arriveat the surface, the compressor urethrae muscle, Cowpers glands andducts, the arteries of the bulb, and the dorsal vein, nerve, and arteryof the penis. We might.familiarly liken this septum to a doublewindow, through which a funnel, representing the urethra, passes;in which case the portion of the funnel contained between the sasheswould correspond to the membranous region. At their apex, the two layers of the deep perineal fascia are thinand firmly attached to the sub-pubic ligament and pubic bones;they then pass downwards and backwards, and are stretched between DEEP PERINEAL FASCIA. 241 the pubic and ischiatic rami. The space between them, containingthe important parts already mentioned, is from half to three-fourthsof an inch in depth. The vena dorsalis penis pierces the fascia Fig. 9. •
Text Appearing After Image:
(After Gray.) half an inch, and the urethra usually at about an inch below thesymphysis; but, according to measurements made by Mr. Thomp-son, the latter distance may vary from seven-eighths to an inchand a quarter; a difference of some importance as affecting thesub-pubic curve of the urethra. From the urethral opening twoprocesses are sent off, one anteriorly to inclose the bulb, and theother posteriorly to become continuous with the fibrous capsulewhich surrounds the prostate gland. The inferior margin, or baseol the deep perineal fascia is directed towards the rectum, and sendsoft a thm fascia which covers the inferior surface of the levatoram muscle; its anterior layer winds round the transversus perineiand, thus doubled on itself, becomes continuous with the superficialperineal fascia. 16 242 STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA. Superficial Perineal Fascia.—Strictly speaking, there are twolayers of this fascia, the superficial and deep. The former consistsof cellulo-adipose tissue, belon

Note About Images