Observations on the structure and diseases of the testis / by Sir Astley Cooper.
- Astley Cooper
- Date:
- 1841
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Observations on the structure and diseases of the testis / by Sir Astley Cooper. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.
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![similarly diseased, and sometimes the vesicular seminales and vasa deferentia are distended with this morbid secretion. But the effusion, whether placed in the one situation or in the other, when it becomes absorbed by proper treatment, may, and appa- rently does, leave the testicle, still capable of performing its functions, and allowing therefore of its complete recovery. [See Plate i and ii, Part II.] Sometimes in dissection, we meet with an abscess or abscesses in the testicle, and epididymis, connected with the adhesive, or fibrous effusion ; and this combined with more or less of ulcer- ation, so that a part of the testicle is destroyed, and the complete recovery of its function is rendered impossible. Several abscesses are sometimes found in the same testicle. It is not very uncommon to find sinuses or fistulae leading from the cavities of these old abscesses, to the external surface of the scrotum, and as the testicle thus diseased, still secretes some semen, both the cavities and their outlets are prevented from closing, until the secreting surface be healed, or destroyed. When the Granular Swelling is produced, the granulations are found by dissection to spring from the seminiferous structure: they are projected through the ulcerated coverings of the testicle or epididymis, but more frequently of the former; and this her- nial granulatory protrusion, produces the swelling, which is so often seen in chronic abscess of the testicle. o 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21298683_0123.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
