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SECT. IV. DEEP ABSORBENTS OF THE PELVIS. 



The Deep Absorbents of the parietes of the pelvis, as in other 

 cases, attend the arteries of the part and have the same names. 

 The obturators come from the heads of the adductor muscles, 

 and, passing through the obturator foramen, end in the hypo- 

 gastric glands. The ischiatics come from the small muscles on 

 the back of the hip joint, and getting into the pelvis along with 

 the sciatic artery, they also terminate in the hypogastric glands. 

 The gluteals come from the three gluteal muscles, and entering 

 the pelvis along with the artery at the superior margin of the 

 sciatic notch, they likewise terminate in the hypogastric glands 

 along with some vessels from the anus and the perineum. The 

 ilio-lumbar, the sacral, and the circumflex iliac absorbents, also 

 follow their respective arteries and terminate in the nearest 

 glands. 



The absorbents of the Testicle are numerous and large: ac- 

 cording to Dr. W. Hunter,* they can sometimes be very com- 

 pletely injected by a pipe thrust into the substance of the testi- 

 cle, and, according to Cruikshankf, very advantageously from 

 the vas deferens, which has succeeded in my own hands. 

 They form two layers, one superficial coming from the tunica 

 vaginalis testis, and the other from the substance of the gland. 

 They, finally, unite into some six or eight trunks, whichj as- 

 cend with the chord through the abdominal canal. Occasion- 

 ally, one or more of them is as large as a crow-quill. By fol- 

 lowing the course of the spermatic artery, they at last terminate 

 in the lumbar glands. 



The deep absorbents of the Penis accompany the arteries, 

 and, therefore, either get into the pelvis beneath the symphysis 

 of the pubes, or along the crura and the tuberosities of the is- 

 chia; hence, a chancre on the prepuce causes bubo, while one 

 on the glans very rarely does, and yet the constitution will be 

 equally affected. These absorbents terminate in the hypogas- 

 tric glands. 



The deep absorbents of the Clitoris follow, in the same way, 

 the internal pudic artery. 



* Loc. cit. f Loc. cit. p. 155 



t Mascagni, loc. cit. Cruikshank, loc. cit. 



