20 Dr P. Lesshaft: 



Denonvilliers, 1 ) Velpeau, 2 ) Richet 3 ) u. s. w. bestätigt 

 wurde; andererseits von Guthrie 4 ) und Job.. Mülle r 5 ) wider- 

 legt und deren Beschreibungen wieder von Quain-Sharpey, 6 ) 

 Theile, 7 ) Hyrtl, 8 ) Santesson, 9 ) u. s. w. bestätigt und 

 von den meisten Anatomen angenommen wurde. 



James Wilson 10 ) beschreibt zwei Muskeln von drei- 



1) Bulletins de la Societe Anatomique de Paris. No. 10. Juin. 

 1836. pag. 105—106. 



2) Traite complet d' Anatomie chirurgicale, 3. edition T. IL 

 Paris 1837. pag. 237. 



3) Traite pratique d' Anatomie medico-chirurgicale 3. edit. Paris 

 1866. pag. 713. 



4) On the anatomy and diseases of the neck of the bladder and 

 of the Urethra. London, 1834. pag. 38 — 43. 



5) Ueber die organischen Nerven der erectil. männlichen Ge- 

 schlechtsorgane; mit 3 Kupfertafeln, Berlin, 1836. S. 6 — 27, Taf. I. 

 1. 2. 



6) Elements of Anatomy edited by W. Sharjfey , Allen Thom- 

 son u.John, Cleland. 7. edition, Vol. I. London 1867, pag. 265. 



7) J. Th. v. Soemmering, Lehre von d. Muskeln und Ge- 

 fässen d. menschlichen Körpers. III. Bd. 1. Abth. Leipzig 1841. S. 

 114 — 116. 



8) Lehrbuch der Anatomie 10. Aufl. Wien, 1867. S. 729. 



9) Utkast tili bestammende of den topographiska anatomicas be- 

 grepp, diss Studium och förhallande tili de öfriga dithörande kuns- 

 kapsarter, jemte bidrag tili anatomica of regio perinaei hos mannen. 

 Akademisk afhandling etc. Stockholm, 1844. pag. 57. — Das Original 

 habe ich nicht bekommen können, siehe Retzius Müllers' Archiv, 

 1849. S. 184. 



10) L. c. p. 176. „In my lectures on the organs of generation, 

 I have for these last ten years, demonstrated to the students atten- 

 ding in Great Windmill Street, frwo very distinct fleshy bellies be- 

 longing to muscles of a triangulär shape, united below by one 

 common tendon, but each having a separate tendinous attachement 

 to the inside of the Symphysis of the pubes, and which are so placed 

 as to Surround the membranous part of the Urethra. The tendon be- 

 longing exclusively to each muscle, is at first of a round shape, but 

 soon becomes flattened as it descends ; it is affixed to the back part of 

 the Symphysis of the pubes; in the adult, about one eighth of an 

 inch, above the lower edge of the cartilaginous arch of the pubes, 

 and nearly at the same distance below the attachement of the tendon 

 of the bladder,- to which, and to the tendon of the corresponding 



