Cases of diseased bladder and testicle / [William Wadd].

  • William Wadd
Date:
1815
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Credit: Cases of diseased bladder and testicle / [William Wadd]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PLATE XIX. An enormously distended scrotum, containing a diseased testicle and hernia. The extremity of the prepuce forms a sort of navel on the anterior surface, from which the urine flowed. The man was fifty-two years of age, and had been under the care of a medical friend of mine in Essex. Notwithstanding the complication of diseases, the hy- drocele had been twice tapped, and relieved of four pints of fluid. The last operation was after an interval of two years, and though no ill consequences followed, the testicle was found so much enlarged, as to render any future attempt hazardous. Sir James Earle mentions a case, in which the tunica vaginalis contained six pints, which is much more con- siderable than any other on record. The figure and appear- ance represented, though a curiosity here, is by no means uncommon in the West Indies.