A treatise on the venereal disease / by the celebrated and ingenious Mr. John Hunter, of London ; abridged by William Currie.

  • Hunter, John, 1728-1793.
Date:
MDCCLXXXVII [1787]
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Credit: A treatise on the venereal disease / by the celebrated and ingenious Mr. John Hunter, of London ; abridged by William Currie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The urethra is a cylinder, as far as it is contained within the fulcus of the corpora cavernofa penis j but after that, it is extended towards the glans penis •, its fides approach- ing each other, it becomes rather a flat tube, but remarkably depreffed juft within the glans j which deprefTion is called fofTa navicularis; after that the canal terminates by a fort of oblong flit, called the orifice of the urethra. What we have now advanced may ferve to convey a general notion of the anatomy of the parts; the difeafes whereof we are about to treat. O F