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VESICULA PROSTATICA. 



vasa deferentia course along the anterior 

 surface of the Weberian organ, and are con- 

 nected thereto by areolar tissue. Subse- 

 quently to the splitting they run along the 



Fig. 882. 



nan organ : excepting that there is a much 

 more considerable size and capacity, which is 

 due to the adult age at which the animal was 

 killed. But here there is no separation into 

 vagina* and uterus. But, in spite of this, by 

 a comparison with the normal female genitals 

 of an individual of the same age, one will 

 easily be convinced, that the Weberian organ 

 in this instance corresponds to the uterus with 

 the vagina, and not to the former of these 

 only. 



But this may best be seen in a third herma- 

 phrodite now lying before me (fig. 883.). Here 

 the Weberian organ is so completely separated 

 into uterus and vagina by the development of 



Fig. 883. 



Internal Genitals of a Male hermaphrodite Goat. 



a, a, testicles with epidiclymis b, b; c, guber- 

 naculum testis; d, d, vasa deferentia with the 

 seminal vesicles; e, vagina; //, cornua of the 

 uterus. 



lower border of the cornua, between the two 

 lamellae of the ala magna, but soon become 

 continuous with the canal of the epididymis. 

 The testicles have not descended into the 

 scrotum. They lie at the ends of the cornua, 

 the outer coverings of which pass into the 

 sheath of the epididymis. If the vasa defe- 

 rentia (which are somewhat thickened at 

 their lower extremities, and, at about six lines 

 from their .apertures, possess a pair of seminal 

 vesicles which lie more deeply), be removed 

 from the Weberian organ, it will be seen that 

 the lower end of the latter (<?) is wider in an 

 extent of nine lines than the segment which 

 lies above it, and is distinguished therefrom 

 by a constriction. By a further examination 

 of the interior at this point, 1 find a transverse 

 fold by which the two segments are still more 

 separated from each other. Although this 

 fold is not a complete os tincae, yet it cannot 

 be doubted that the two segments of the 

 Weberian organ, which are limited thereby, 

 are the uterus and vagina ; the less so 

 that they possess different developments of 

 the muscular and mucous membranes, which, 

 in appearance and structure, exactly corre- 

 spond with these membranes in the uterus and 

 vagina of a new-born female goat. 



In a second individual 1 remark a very 

 similar form and development of the Webe- 



Internal Genitals of a Male hermaphrodite Goat, 

 a to/, as in fig. 883. ; g, g, Fallopian tubes ; h, ure- 

 thra ; i, uro-genital canal. 



a formal os tincae, that it might almost be 

 thought, from the simultaneous presence of 

 the Fallopian tubes f, from the very consider- 



* The hermaphrodite goat figured by Gurlt (Path. 

 Anat. Tab. 22. fig. 3, 4.), and copied by Simpson 

 (loc. cit. p. 300:), exactly resembles this ; only the 

 horns of the uterus were here produced for a great 

 length, because the testicles had descended through 

 the inguinal canals into the scrotum. 



t The presence of real tubes in the so called An- 

 drogyni is very rare, and has perhaps hitherto beei 

 observed with certainty only by Mascagni in the 

 bull. (Atti di Siena, vol. v'ii. p. 201.) What are 

 usually thus called are only the longly produced 

 horns of the uterus. All that lies between the body 

 of the uterus and the Hunterian ligament belongs, 

 to the cornu of the uterus. The tubes always lie, as 

 H. Meckel has pointed out (1. c. S. 43.), on the 

 other side of the Hunterian or round ligament, as 

 is represented in my case by the figure above. At 

 the end of the tubes in this case, there is a smaU, 

 almost cup-shaped, nodosity at the inner border oi 

 the epididymis, which is apparently the imperfectly 

 developed timbria. 



