A practical treatise on the diseases of the testis and of the spermatic cord and scrotum / by T.B. Curling ; edited by P.B. Goddard.

  • Curling, Thomas Blizard, 1811-1888.
Date:
1843
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Credit: A practical treatise on the diseases of the testis and of the spermatic cord and scrotum / by T.B. Curling ; edited by P.B. Goddard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    estimated by Lauth at ih of an inch. Haller reckoned their number at twenty, which is, how- ever, too few. B Rete Testis, as its name implies, consists of a plexus of seminal tubes, which occupies the corpus Highmori, or mediastinum testis. The vasa recta, after penetrating the Walls of this body, terminate in from seven to thirteen vessels, which, running parallel to each other in a waving course, and fre- quently dividing and anastomosing, form the rete testis (6). Lauth found the mean diameter of the vessels of the rete in injected preparations ^ of an inch. According to Prochaska, these vessels are B. Diagram of the testis, after Lauth. a a a. Tubuli. a1 r/1. Subdivisions and anastomoses of the tubuli. a a-. Vasa recta. The other references are the same as in fig-. A.