130 Mr. Gibson’s Description of an 
a fraenum. It was also imperforate, like that of the clitoris ; 
for although the urethra was continuous with the penis, it did 
not perforate the substance of the glans ; but, for a consider- 
able extent, passed on the under surface of the penis, merely 
covered by the common integuments : nor was it surrounded 
by the corpus spongiosum, till it arrived nearly as far as the 
bulb of the urethra. These were all the female characters I 
observed, till being induced to open the bladder, which felt 
uncommonly thick and muscular, I discovered a uterus placed 
in its cavity, in some measure incorporated with the substance, 
and forming a part of that viscus. It was situated towards the 
most depending part of the bladder ; its fundus projected about 
half an inch, whilst the rest of its body and cervix, was in- 
corporated with the posterior part of the bladder. From its 
superior part, the fallopian tubes proceeded, beautifully con- 
voluted ; they penetrated through the substance of the bladder, 
and, as far as I could ascertain, terminated in a cul de sac near 
the vesicular seminales. The uterus was hollow ; its cervix 
extended to the beginning of the urethra, where it terminated 
by an oval opening on the prostate gland, nearer to the neck 
of the bladder than the verumontanum. I could not discover 
whether the ovaria were connected with the uterus, but it is 
extremely probable, that they were situated exterior to the 
bladder, near the termination of the fallopian tubes, and might 
have been removed accidentally, during the dissection of parts, 
where their existence was little expected. 
As I had no reason to believe that there was any variety 
in the distribution of the nerves of the extremities, my atten- 
tion was principally directed to those of the thoracic and 
abdominal viscera. 
