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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    congenita, has, I believe, left it unnoticed; I mean the comparatively small size of the testicle, when found in contact with the gut. Mr. Pott speaks of the testicle as wasted, which subsequent writers have considered as the effect of absorption from the pressure of the gut; but the pressure is not much greater than in common hernia: besides which, the diminutive size of the testis will be found at an age, when the pressure must have been of much shorter duration than in others, where the testicles retain the natural size. The following are Mr. Hunter’s words, “ It is not easy to ascertain the cause of this failure in the descent of the testicle; but I am inclined to suspect that the fault originates in the testicles themselves; it is however certain that the testicle which has compleated its descent, is the largest, which is more evident in the quadruped than in the human subject; as in these we can have an opportunity of examining the parts when we please, and can determine how small, in comparison with the other, that testicle is which has exceeded the usual time of coming down; it never descends so low as the other.” The above consideration, added to the condition of the parts in hernia congenita, very much confirm Mr. Hunter’s opinion, that the detention of the testicle, arises from an imperfection in the gland itself. K