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the hypogastric artery: their veins run into the hypogastric. 

 Their nerves come from the sacral and from the hypogastric 

 plexus. 



The Bladder and the Rectum, with unimportant exceptions, 

 are the same in both sexes. The Levator Ani, the Coccygeus, 

 and the Sphincter Ani, are also similar. The pelvic aponeuro- 

 sis in the female, besides connecting the bladder to the sides of 

 the pelvis, is attached to the anterior part of the vagina. The 

 triangular ligament of the urethra also exists, t>ut under circum- 

 stances somewhat modified by the close connexion of the urethra 

 with the vagina. 



CHAPTER III. 



OF THE LACTIFEROUS GLANDS, OR BREASTS. 



THE Breasts (Mammce) of the female are intended for the 

 secretion of milk, and thereby to maintain the connexion be- 

 tween mother and infant for some time after the uterine life of 

 the latter is passed. All mammiferous animals exercise this 

 function: in birds there is a sort of substitute for it, in the 

 changes which take place in the first stomach or crop during 

 incubation. In the male subject, there is, also, a small gland- 

 ular body on each side, which has the same organization as in 

 the female, but is in miniature, and always remains in a col- 

 lapsed state, with some rare exceptions, when it has been known 

 to expand in volume, and to furnish a secretion, as in the fe- 

 male.* 



* In a male patient, a resident in the Philadelphia Alms House, the pheno- 

 menon of a full evolution of the glandular structure in both breasts is manifested. 

 The individual (James Mclntyre) is forty-five years of age; the breasts are as 

 large as those of a nursing woman; but the nipples are not proportionately evolved. 

 Though his frame is robust, and well set, the voice is feminine; his external or- 

 gans of generation are about the size of those of a boy of fourteen or fifteen. 



