Observations on the testicles / by James Russell.

Date:
1833
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Credit: Observations on the testicles / by James Russell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    into tlie inguinal canal, whenever the party was in company with women. But the most curious deviation from the ordinary course of descent, is when the testicle, instead of descending through the inguinal canal, which is its natural course, accompanies the femoral vessels in their progress under Poupart’s liga- ment, making its appearance at the bend of the thigh. Mr Arnaud gives seve- ral instances of this singular variety. The most instructive case is detailed at considerable length. An officer, about forty years of age, consulted Mr Arnaud respecting a swelling in the bend of the thigh, which was taken for a hernia. Upon an accurate examination of the case, however, Mr Arnaud satis^fied himself that the swelling was not a hernia, but a