GENERATION. 



uill aiTill ihc in general. It is rough and harder on the furface, and 

 fliorter in cold wpathcr, in young fubjetls, at the time of 

 rreclion, and in a ftrong, vigorous ftate of the body : con- 

 fequcntly, at fuch times, it is aj)plied more exactly to the 

 teiles, and, drawing thefe organs gently upwards, ihortcns 



meatus (irinarius to tlie clitoris i:i the female, 



dccilion, as alfo the want of power to pais an mili-umcnt 



towards the lituation of the utcrur. 



The fnialhv fi/e of the clitoris and its dtiTereHt niape ; 



the conncC\io;i of its preputium to the nymp!.,e, and the pre- ■ , • .r.i r j . xv " f" n' "j „f f 



fence of the latter parts the feparate opening of the vagina the cords The fudden ad.on of cold, and ev_en of fear, 



an 1 meatus urinariis. and the prefenoe of tl,e hymen ; the w;ll produce the latter ftate of the organ. The wnnkles 



abfence of tefticlcs, all prove the individual to he a wo- which it exhibits at fuch times are effaced by extending 



""An adhefu.n of the labia to each other at their convexities The coverings of the teftes fuccecd each other in the fol- 



mav caufe a difficulty in deciding : but here the abfence of louing order : lit. The cutaneous mvellment or fcrotum ; 



the penis and tefticles, the -liicharge of the urine at the upper 2dly. 1 !,. cellular layer ; jdly. Membrane of a fibrous ap- 



cnd of tlie labia, and the line of union between thule folds, pearnnce, common to the tellis and cord ; 4thly. 1 he leroej 



ihew us the nature of the cafe. membra,.e The reafon why the dartos is not enumerated 



Much information on the fubjett of hermaphrodites may among ti.efe coverings will appear prelently. 



be irained from th- follov.ing works. Parfons' Mechanical The icrotum is continuous with the integuments of the 



and Critical Enquiry into tiie nature of Hermaphrcdites : infide of the thighs, the perineum, and penis. It is difliii- 



I ondon 8vo 1741. Ambrofe Fare's Works, book 24. guiflied by a brownifh hue from the reft of the integuments, 



Pietfcli ' Gedankcnvon den Zwittern, in the Old Hamburg but follows in general the tints of the latter, being always 



Man-azi'ne, vol iv. p. 53S, et feq. Arnaud, in Mcmoires darker in colour. A few fhoit hairs are fcattered over its 



de" Chirnr'irie. if all'er, iium demur Hermaphroditi, com- furface, and their bulbs, obliquely imjilanted, form feniiblc 



• ' • "'ommentarii foe. reg. fcient. Gottingen, prominences from the thinnefs of the fkin, which are not 



nicntarius, in the Cc 



the 



torn. I.; or in his Opera Minora, vol. ii. Hunter on 

 Free Martin, in his Obf. on the Animal Economy. Home, 

 Difl'eclion of an Hermaphrodite D<.>g, with Obfervations on 

 Hermaphrodites in .reneral, Philof. Traniaa. 1799. Mo- 

 reau Hilloire Naturelle de la Eemme, tom. 1. p. 211, ct 

 feq. Wrilberg, Commcntatio de fingulari genitalium do- 



effaced by extenlion of the organ. In its general organiza- 

 tion the fcrotum refembles the fl<in ; but it is very' thin, fo 

 that the veins of the fubjacent cellular tifTue are vifible 

 through it. The vital properties of the fcrotum are the 

 fame with thofe of tlie fkin in general ; but the contraftiou 

 produced by cold is more maniieft in the former than in the 

 latter. The phenomenon feems to be the fame in both in- 

 ftances. It conilitutes the cutis anferina of the furface in 



formitite in puero, hcrmaphroditium mcnticnte, m his Com- 



mentat. vol i. p. 504, ct feq. ■ r t ■ -r 



M/ik Organs of Gcr.cratinn. — In the human fubjeft thefe general. This corrugation of the part has given rife to the 

 confift of the tefticles, vciicula; feminalcs, proftate. Cow- opinion that a mufcular expanilon is found under tlie fkin in 

 per' s elands, urethra, and penis ; making up a fecrctory ap- this i'ltuation ; and hence have arifcn the defcriptions of the 

 paratus, which is double, confifting of a right and left or- dartos. We can, however, clearly diftinguifh that the 

 gan, in'the two former parts, and fingle in the latter. The contraftion is in the integuments, and not in any more 

 peculiarities of the apparatus confill in the fmall quantity of decply-feated part ; they feel denfe and firm at this time, 

 flu d which it fiirniflics, in the long periods for which this inft:ead of being foft and loofe, as in their ordinary ftate. 

 fluid is retained in its refervoirs ; in the particular condition The teflis and cordare furrounded in their fituation by a 

 of the organ deftincd for its cmiffion, eflentially necefl'ary to copious and loofe layer of cellular fubftanre, placed immc- 

 that aft • and in the nhyfical feeling which accompanies the diately under the fl<in, and conflituting, where it divides the 

 2£^ two teftes from each other, the feptum fcroti Tiiis is rather 



The Tefticles. Thefe organs, placed externally to the ca- more denfe immediiitely under the cutaneous integumciit, and 



vity of the abdomen, and lefs proteftcd againfl external in- loofer at the furface of the tcftis. Several blood-veffels 

 jury than moft other important vifcera, are fufpriidcd, each ramify through it, particularly veins ; and hence arifes an 

 of them by a confidcrable vafcular bundle, called \\\e fpenr.a- appearance Avliich may have authorized the opinion concern- 

 /if ror(/, and contained in a kind of bag or cavity formed of feve- ing a mufcular covering on a fuperficial examination: but 

 ral membranous layers. Amiddle feptumdividcs thcinteriorof accurate infpeftion can difcover no mufcular fibres. Many 

 the ba"-, and feparates from each other the right and left tcftis, nervous filaments are alfo feen in this fiibftance, and enable 

 with their coverings, which are double with the exception us to explain the acute fenfibility obferved on the removal of 

 of the outer one. The latter, formed by the iatcguments, the teftis in furgical operations, a little fat is feen near the 

 and called the fcrotum or purfe (in French les bouries) con- ring and the urethra ; but it is completely abfent from all 

 ftitutes a fingle bag, v.'hich envelopes all the others. The other lltuations. Here, as in the penis, the eye-lids and 

 fcrotum is attached to the upper and front part of the pelvis, fome other parts, the abundant depofition of fat would in- 

 unconnccled in everv other fituation, contiguous laterally to terfere witli the funffions of the organ; and it.s abfence in 

 the infide of the thighs, in front to the penis, and teparated thefe fituations feems to indicate the dciign and forefight em- 

 behind from the anus by an interval of two or three inches, ployed in the conftruction of the body as fully as the parti, 

 called the di-nn/uHi. A fmallfold of the fkin under the penis, cularcoiillruAion of any parts can do. However the fize of 

 a flicfht groove below, and a prominent line behind, coiiti- the body in general may be increafed in corpulent perfons, 

 nued into the raphe of the perineum, mark out fuccefTive'y, the fcrotum, penis, £;c. always retain the fame dimenfions. 

 on the external furface, the fymmetrical divifion of the The abfence of fat renders thefe parts more efpecially fub- 

 nrgan. Yet the right fide of the fcrotum is almoft conftant- jeft to the watery depofitions of anafarca : fuch efl'ufions 

 ly more elevated than the left, in confequen..- of the cor- often manifeft themfelves firft in the fcrotum, and that organ 

 refponding fpermatic cord being fhorter, and the teftis nearer is generally very much increafed in bulk when the anafarca is 

 to the ring. The fcrotuna is foft to the feel, and elongated, confiderable. The impijfion of air through an opening in 

 fly that t'ne teftes appear loofe and hang low, in warm wea- the fcrotum dcmonflrates very well the nature and extent of 

 ther, in old perfons, after coition, and under the acfion of this celhUar layer ; by diftenljon of this kind it refembles 

 any caufes which have a debilitating influence on the frame cotton in appearance. Maceration in water may be employed 



for 



