A study of accessory sex structures of the rat and mouse.

Since very early times anatomists have known of the existence of the prostate gland; somewhere between the years 310 and 250 B.C. Erasistratus, a Greek anatomist of Alexandria, discovered and named the gland in the human (Mettler, 1947). However, in spite of this early start, the physiology and the biochemistry of the prostate and other male accessory sex glands were for long neglected. But in the last few years, these structures have been the subject of comprehensive investigations (Huggins, 1945; 1946-47; Mann and Lutwak-Mann, 1951) stimulated by the growing interest in the problem of fertility in domestic animals and man