86 ORGANS OF GENERATION. 



rable number of sebaceous follicles or glands about the root of 

 the organ, with hairs growing from the centre of them. This 

 same skin, in passing to the abdomen over the pubes, is some- 

 what protruded by a subjacent deposite of fat and cellular mat- 

 ter, causing an appearance corresponding with the mons vene- 

 ris of the female; and is also generally thickly covered with 

 short curly hair, which, as the individual advances in life, pro- 

 ceeds in a pointed directionto the umbilicus. The skin of the 

 penis is but loosely connected to the organ, so that it slides 

 readily backwards and forwards, and by its elasticity is well 

 suited to the varying states of erection and collapse. At the 

 anterior extremity it is thrown into a duplicature or fold, the 

 prepuce, (Prceputium;) the internal lamina of which being 

 fixed circularly to the penis, some distance back from the 

 point, permits a considerable portion of that extremity of the 

 penis, called the Glans, to project when the prepuce is drawn 

 back. The under middle part of the prepuce is attached to the 

 extremity of the glans by a vertical longitudinal duplicature, 

 called the Fraenum, which extends to the orifice of the urethra. 

 The skin does not actually stop at the circumference of the 

 glans, but is continued smoothly over it, modified, however, so 

 much in its structure, as to be much more adherent, soft, deli- 

 cate, vascular, and sentient: its cuticle there is a thin epithe- 

 lium, readily separated by maceration. The projecting circu- 

 lar and oblique shoulder of the glans, behind which the skin be- 

 comes firmly joined to the penis, is called the Crown, (Corona 

 Glandis.) The contracted portion, behind the corona, is the 

 neck, (Collum.) On the surface of the neck and the posterior 

 face of the corona, the skin is furnished with an abundance of 

 small glandular masses or follicles, (Glandules Odoriferce Tyso- 

 m,) which secrete the thick white sebaceous matter, (Smegma 

 prceputii,) that accumulates when personal cleanliness is not 

 attended to. 



The penis, in addition to other modes of attachment to the 

 bones of the pelvis, is fixed by the Ligamentum Suspensorium. 

 The latter is a triangular vertical fibrous lamina, which proceeds 

 downwards from the symphysispubis to the dorsum of the penis; 

 and, according to Mr. Golles, envelops this organ to the glans, 

 forming its cellular coat, and being continued into the fascia su- 



