On the Wolffian bodies of the foetus, and their remains in the adult : including the development of the generative system / by William Mitchell Banks.

  • Banks, W. Mitchell (William Mitchell), 1842-1904.
Date:
1864
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Credit: On the Wolffian bodies of the foetus, and their remains in the adult : including the development of the generative system / by William Mitchell Banks. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    size than that of the doubled fist, that circumstance may be taken as in itself affording almost conclusive proof that the cyst is a true ovarian one. 2. In the Male.—Morgagni's hydatid offers but little scope for pathological inquiry, but still there are some curious points connected with it. For instance, it is often suspended by the merest thread of a pedicle, and it has been suggested that the breaking of this, and the conse- quent falling of the hydatid into the tunica vaginalis, might prove a cause of hydrocele, by the irritation set up by the loose body. That it does sometimes fall off is a fact, for M. Gosselin has found it lying detached from its pedicle in the new-born child. Every now and then, too, we find in the sac of the tunica, curious little bodies like cartilages, one of which I found in the body of a man of 60. The hydatid was absent from its normal site, and the patient had a hydrocele on his other side, which I unfortunately did not see opened, and so cannot say if there was a loose body there, too, or not. Curling says that they are very frequently found in hydroceles, and I think it very probable that many of them are hydatids which have fallen off, and become hardened. Sir Astley Cooper had an idea that this was the case also. The hydatid itself is rarely the seat of true cystic en- largement, Gosselin having only seen it seven times, and then it occurred in old people ; the contents in these cases were of a slightly yellow colour, and never contained spermatozoa. Midler's duct (in its upper part), as stated before, seems to form the greater number of those small superficial cysts which are so common in the testicle, and which certainly have no communications with its tubes, as Gosselin has shown that injections never by any chance pass into them. Their envelope is of a fibro-cellular nature, and usually very delicate, and their contents, though sometimes clear,