BOOK VI. 



Organs of Generation. 

 CHAPTER I. 



OF THE ORGANS OF GENERATION IN THE MALE. 



THE Male Organs of Generation consist in the Testicles and 

 in the Penis, with their appendages; or, in the language of some 

 anatomists, in the Formative and in the Copulative Organs: 

 which distinction has been applied to both sexes. 



SECT. I. OF THE PENIS. 



The Penis, (Membrum Virile, Me?iula } ) from performing 

 the two offices, one of which is the conducting of urine from 

 the bladder, and the other the projection of semen into the fe- 

 male, has accordingly, a peculiarity of structure, which allows 

 it to assume a state of collapse or of erection. Its shape is al- 

 most cylindrical, but terminating in front by an obtusely pointed 

 extremity, named Glans. It adheres by its posterior end or root 

 to the bones of the pelvis, at and below the symphysis pubis. 



It is. formed by common integuments, by condensed cellular 

 tissue, by the Corpus Cavernosum, and by the Corpus Spon- 

 giosum. 



The skin on the penis is more thin and delicate than it is on 

 most other parts of the body, and is furnished with a conside- 

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