The history of discovery of bulbourethral glands

Kutia, S.A.; Sataeva, T.P.; Nikolaeva, N.G.; Printseva, N.Yu.; Moroz, G.A.

Urologiia 2016(3): 108-111

2016


ISSN/ISBN: 1728-2985
PMID: 28247640
Document Number: 687123
The article outlines the chronology of the discovery of the bulbourethral glands. Their first image appeared in 1600 in a collection of anatomical tables by Italian anatomist Hieronymus Fabricius of Acquapendente. In the scientific literature, they were first mentioned in one of the editions of "Journal des scavans" in 1684 as discovered by the French surgeon Jean Mry. The first detailed description of the structure, topography and function of these glands was presented in the work of English physician and anatomist William Cowper in 1699.

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