PUBLISHED BY THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 

 OF THE COLLEGE OF PHARMACY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK 



Vol. III. 



New York, January, 1896. 



No. I. 



GENERATION." 



By h. a. haubold, m. d., 



Assistant to the Chair of Physiology, Bellevue Hospital Medical College, Visiting Surgeon to Harlem Hospital, 



Fellow to State Medical Association, etc. 



The question of spontaneous generation The function of generation as regards 



is now definitely settled. Its discussion the male senses with the comparatively 

 is of purely historical interest and as the simple process of penetration of the male 



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time allotted to me this evening is neces- 

 sarily short, I shall dismiss this sub- 

 ject with the statement that there is 

 no such thing as spontaneous generation. 

 There are, of course, certain distinct 



element into the substance of the ovum 

 and its fusion with the same. 



This is called fecundation of the ovum. 

 The fecundated ovum then undergoes 

 certain changes that are the first processes 



forms of generation that obtain in some of its development, forms its attachments 



of the lower forms of animal life. But to the body of the mother, continues its. 



we are not concerned with these to-night, development and is nourished and grows 



The subject of this lecture is Human until the foetus at right is brought into 



Generation and here it is necessary that the world. 



certain physiological conditions must ob- The female organs of generation are 



tain. These conditions I shall now dis- divided into internal and external. 



CU.SS. The external are the vulva with its 



In physiology there is no such thing adjacent parts of the vagina. The in- 



as immaculate conception. The creation ternal are the uterus, fallopian tubes and 



of a new being begins with the union of 

 the male and female elements of genera- 

 tion. This in the male is the spermato- 

 zoid, and in the female the ovum. 



The union of these two elements is 

 brought about by an act that is known 

 as sexual connection or copulation. 



the ovaries. 



The ovaries are the true female organs 

 and in them alone is the female element 

 produced. The fallopian tubes and the 

 uterus are accessory organs, the female 

 element, the ovum, passing through the 

 lallopian tubes into the uterus, where it 



