There is a
case described of a man who evidently suffered from a patent
urachus, as the urine passed in jets as if controlled by a
sphincter from his umbilicus. Littre mentions a patent urachus in
a boy of eighteen. Congenital dilatation of the ureters is
occasionally seen in the new-born. Shattuck describes a male
fetus showing reptilian characters in the sexual ducts. There was
ectopia vesicae and prolapse of the intestine at the umbilicus;
the right kidney was elongated; the right vas deferens opened
into the ureter. There was persistence in a separate condition of
the two Mullerian ducts which opened externally inferiorly, and
there were two ducts near the openings which represented anal
pouches. Both testicles were in the abdomen. Ord describes a man
in whom one of the Mullerian ducts was persistent.
Anomalies of the Bladder.--Blanchard, Blasius, Haller, Nebel, and
Rhodius mention cases in which the bladder has been found absent
and we have already mentioned some cases, but the instances in
which the bladder has been duplex are much more frequent.
Bourienne, Oberteuffer, Ruysch, Bartholinus, Morgagni, and Franck
speak of vesical duplication. There is a description of a man who
had two bladders, each receiving a ureter.
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