The generative organs, considered anatomically, physically, and philosophically / a posthumous work of Emanuel Swedenborg ; translated from the Latin by James John Garth Wilkinson.

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1852
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    by which the scrotum is divided into two compartments. . . . Its vessels come from the pudendal and hypogastric vessels; its nerves from the sacrum. (Comp. Anat., n. 224.) 39. ScHURTG^ in his Spermatologia, 1720^ Cap. II. § 32, p. 79, says: The scrotum in cases of hernia, in hydrocele and sarcocele, as well as in intestinal hernia, is greatly extended be- yond the normal size, and takes the shape of a huge oblong cupping glass. A case is given in which it reached the extraor- dinary size of a foot and a half long, and three feet and a half in circumference, and weighed thirty-four pounds*. In one case the scrotum reached the knees, and not a trace of the penis could be seen [p. 81]. In one instance it was far bigger than the human head. There are also cases recorded in which the scrotum was distended by flatus to the size of a young child^s head. In Egypt the part is frequently subject to fleshy excrescences of a huge size; so much so that a piece removed from one person weighed twenty-five pounds [§ 33, p. 82]. Examples are related of the scrotum being absent, while the penes and testicles were entire, such cases are congenital, or the result of gangrene, or of exposure to intense cold, by which the scrotum has been killed by sphacelus [§ 34, p. 84]. Spha- celus of the scrotum [§ 35, p. 86]. A case of the scrotum being covered with a stony crust [§ 36, p. 87]. Cases of cal- culi of amazing size in the scrotum [§ 37, p. 88]. And one of a wart hanging from the part, and in shape like a mushroom. * Dr. Esdaile's cases in India are still more extraordinary. In many of them the tumour weighed from 60 to 100 pounds. See his Mesmerism in India, and its practical application in Surgery and Medicine: London, 1846; and all his Indian labours in The Zoist, vols. iv.—ix.—Tr.