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has been questioned by Biedl 1 and by Haberern 2 , and is 

 now generally discredited. 



Arbuthnot Lane 3 has asserted that the prostate is 

 not only an organ of internal secretion, but that its con- 

 tribution to the seminal discharge is absorbed from the 

 vagina with beneficial results to the woman. 



Lane's views concerning the prostatic secretion were 

 adversely criticized in a leading article 4 which discusses 

 the matter fully from morphological and physiological 

 standpoints. As the subject would be a digression in 

 this place further information must be obtained, if 

 required, from the article mentioned. 



1 Biedl, A., Innere Sekretion, 1913, 2nd Ed. 



2 Haberern, J. P., Internal. Ccnigr. d'Urol., 1908. 



3 Lane, Arbuthnot, Lancet, 1918, vol. ii, p. 622. 



4 Leading Article, Lancet, 1918, vol. ii, p. 674. 



