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of the proftate:, and in the feminal bladders, the feat of a virulent gonorrhoea ies 5 
and therefore, if they be broken, hurt, or dilated, either by a catheter putting into 
the bladder, or by any other means, there follows immediately an incurable gonorrs 
hea. The diftance between the root of the fcrotum and the podex is called périne- 
uu. ..This, with the pubes and {crotum, ate furnifhed with hair, becaufe glandules 
are placed here, which abound with plenty of humidity, a part of which they sien 
the {kin for the generating thereof. 
The penis, or yard, isan organical part, long, and roundifh, but birdadensie the up- 
per. fide than where the urethra is, being the male inftrument of generation, and ap- 
pointed for the evacuation of the feed. and urine. It is feated under the os pubis éx- 
actly in the middle, becaufe it is only one in number. Its magnitude is extremely 
various in different fubjects, being for the moft part greater than ordinary in ‘little 
men alfo in fuch as have large nofes, for the proportion of the yard very much an- 
fwers that of the nofe; in fuch.as have thick, full, large beards ; and in A‘thiopians, 
orblackamoors. It confifts of afcarf-tkin, flefhy membrane, and a proper fubftance 
of its own ; but is void of fat even in the fatteft men, left thereby its moft exquifite 
fenfe fhould bedulled, Its proper fubftance is four-fold : firft, the urethra ; fecond« 
ly, the glans; thirdly and fourthly, the two nervous bodies, one on each fide. The 
urethra, or paflage of the urine and feed, is a pipe of a nervous fubftance, of the fame 
_ bignefs from the neck of the bladder (to which itis joined) to the end of the yard, or 
- beginning of the glans, for in the middle of the glans it has a greater: holiownefs. 
Its fubftance alfo.is thick, loofe, and foft, like that of the, two lateral ligaments or 
nervous bodies. This urethra has alfo.wo membranes, and afubftance proper toit- - 
felf, The one membrane i is internal, thin, and of exquifite fenfe,, with which alfo the 
glans i is covered ; this fprings from the thin. membrane which clothes the nervesof 
the yard: the other is external, more thick and flefhy,. and furnifhed: with nerves: 
the middle part, which is its proper fubftance, is loofe, fpungy, and black, thatit 
may be diftended or contracted with the other parts, In the beginning of itschannel 
re thefe pores through which the feed is ejaculated, as.alfoa little membrane or cat= 
uncle like,a valve ftretched before it, to keep the feed. and urine from returning into 
the fpermatic veflels: if it be broken or eroded by fharp humours, or the unikilfal 
ufe of a catheter, there follows an incurablegonorrheea. Its ufe.is to bethe common 
paflage of the urine and feed. Balanus, glans, the head or nut of the yard, is anhol- 
lowed kernel, wider in the middle than at the external orifice: of a globular form, — 
even, and compafled with a circle or crown. — Its fubftanceis fieth, more folid than 
the reftofthe yard, ofa moft exquifite fenfe, andcovered wi ith anexceeding thin mem- 
brane, foft andred, Isis covered with the reduplication ofthe exiesnalsin ofthe xa" 
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