On some malformations of the organs of generation / by William Turner.

  • William Turner
Date:
1865
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Credit: On some malformations of the organs of generation / by William Turner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tozoa could be detected in it on microscopic examination. Some of the pouches had their walls affected with calcareous degenera- tion. In close relation to the right half of the base of the prostate were two tubes, both of which had been cut short before the pre- paration reached me. They were evidently the right vas and vesicula. Their excretory ducts were impervious, and converted into slender fibrous cords, which ran along the lower end of the left ureter before it entered the prostate and were blended with the fibrous coat of the left vesicula as it surrounded the ureter. In considering the peculiarities exhibited by this interesting preparation, it must be noted that not only was the left testicle retained in the abdominal cavity, but the vas deferens correspond- ing to it was a tube closed at both ends, having no connexion with the testicle at the epididymis, and possessing no opening into the urethra at its lower end. The atrophied condition of the left kidney, and the termination of its ureter in the prostatic portion of the urethra, are also worthy of notice. That one or other kidney may atrophy almost to complete disappearance is a fact so well known to pathologists that I need not adduce other examples in confirmation of this specimen. But cases of transposition of the lower end of an ureter are so rare that it may not be amiss to cite a few examples. And, not to speak of cases in which, with con- genital absence of the bladder, the ureters opened either on to the pubic region or into the urethra,11 may here refer to a case recorded by Thilow (Meckel, Path. Anat., p. 742), in which the ureter went beyond the bladder and opened into the urethra; to a case recorded j by Forster,2 where the left kidney and ureter were wanting, and the right ureter opened into the left side of the bladder, at the spot where the left ureter should have terminated had it been present; and to a second case detailed and figured3 4 by the same accurate pathologist, in which, in a female, the ureter ended in the left side of the uterus. If the ureter, in the case I have related in this paper, ended in the utriculus, then it may be compared with the second case recorded by Forster, for the prostatic vesicle is the homologue of the uterus and vagina. Sometimes the ureter ends inferiorly in a closed extremity. When on a recent visit to Oxford, Dr Acland showed me, in the pathological collection of the Univer- sity, a preparation of the kidney and ureter of a pig. The ureter, about ten inches long, ended inferiorly in a blind pouch, which was distended with a brown fluid. Cases of retention of the testicle in the cavity of the abdomen are by no means unfrequent; but cases of retention, conjoined with lack of connexion between the testicle and the vas deferens, and with or 1 For specimens of this kind I may refer to the cases by Thilow, Blasius, and Binninger, cited by Forster, in his recent treatise, “ Die Missbildungen des Menschen,” Jena, 1861. 3 Virchow’s Archiv, vol. xiii. p. 275. 1858. 4 Die Missbildungen, p. 127.
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