& #CULPEPER’s| ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
The bladder, or receptacle of urine, is feated between the duplicature‘of the 
peritoneum, in the cavity of the hypogafrium, which is called pelvis, or the bafon; 
which in a man lies between thes pubis and intefinum refium 5 ina woman, between 
the os pubis and the neck of the womb. Its figure is oval or globical; that it might 
~ = hold:the more}: from the'bottom itis by little and little ftraightened into ‘a narrow 
neck. Its magnitude is various ; and, according to the greatnefs of the lungs, fuch 
is the greatne{s of the bladder ;.and fuch animals as have no lungs have no bladder: 
man, according to. his magnitude, has of all living creatures the greateft bladder. Its 
fubftance is:partly membranous, for ftrength fake, as alfo that it might extend and 
wrinkle together....It has.two membranes and one mufcle, which moft anatomifts 
make to be a thirdumembrane, and not a mufcle. The bottom is fattened to the 
peritoneum, and to the-navel by a middle ligament called urachus, and the two naval 
-arteries dried up. The neck of the bladder is tied in men to the inteftinum reéium , 
but in women to the vagina uteri, or neck of the womb, and to’the neighuboulted : 
-hip-bones. The bladder has three holes; two a little before the neck, where the ; 
treters are inferted, and a third in the neck; through which the urine is voided. 
The neck is flefhy and fibrous, furnifhed with a fphinéter mufcle to purfe: it: up, 
. ‘that the urine may not pafs out againft our will; in-men this neck is long, narrow, 
and wreathed, becaufe, being placed under the bodies, which conttitute the yard, it 
runs upwards under the fhare-bones, from the fundament to the origin of the yard. 
‘In-women it is fhort and broad, ftretched forth downwards, and implanted above 
into the neck of the womb. The bladder has arteries from the Aypoga/rrica in-men, 
-and from thofe which go from the neck of the womb in women: ; by thefe.it is 
(nourifhed ; it has veins alfo from the vena hypogaftrica implanted into the fides of its 
“neck, varioufly diffeminated through the bladder, which are mutually conjoined one 
‘with another and with the arteries by open holes, that nutritive blood may return 
| andi it-has nerves from the par vagum, and from the medulla of the os facrume) °° ~ 
~ 9 The fpermatic veffels, in men called vafa- preparantia, are two-fold, viz. aca 
‘fpermatic veins, and the two fpermatic arteries. ‘The right-fide vein {prings from 
othe trunk.of the vena cava, a little below the rife of the emulgent, otherwife it mult 
‘goover the aorta, and then there would be danger of breaking ; or, at leaft, by 
‘reafon:of the pulfation of the artery, the venal blood might be hindered. Both the. 
feminal arteriesarife from the trunk of the aorta, about two inches diftant fromthe 
emulgents ; thefe.veffels, being a little diftant one. from another, are tied together 
ana thin membrane from the peritoneum, Thefe {permatic preparers are greater 
in'men than’ in-women, and the arteries are greater than the veins, becaufe very 
% {inachsteany wigehipiriy and aesocial blood, eee Thefe veifels 
