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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    being a third testicle. This body was situated be- tween the groin and the proper testicle of the right side, with which, however, it did not seem to be in immediate contact, but to be suspended, as it were, by a shorter cord, or hung up in a separate sac. The right spermatic cord was much thicker than natural at its upper part, where, in fact, it con- sisted of two cords', one of which was distinctly traced into the upper testicle on this side, and the other, much longer, into the lower testicle, and in each of those parts, as well as in the cord on the left side, the vas deferens could be distinctly felt, like a piece of whipcord, between the fingers. The man stated that the third testicle had occu- pied its present situation as long as he could re- member, and had never caused him any incon- venience* An epiplocele, a fatty or fibrous tumour in the scrotum, or an encysted hydrocele of the cord, might readily be mistaken for an additional testis. Morgagni mentions that he was once deceived by a portion of omentum. In the pathological collec- tion at St. Thomas's Hospital is preserved the testis of the eccentric Dr. Monsey, who appeared during life to be supplied with three of these glands. The supposed additional testis consists of an indu- rated fibrous tumour attached apparently to the tunica vaginalis. My friend Professor Fergusson, of King's College, has communicated to me the particulars of the case of a man aged seventy- * Provincial Medical Journal, Nov. 5,1842, p. 113.