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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![Little patches of cartilage, and of earth, are often seen between the tunica vaginalis, testis, and the tunica albuginea. The greater part of the tunica albuginea is also sometimes entirely covered, as well as interstitially loaded, with earthy matter, of which an excellent example may be seen in the collec- tion of preparations at Guy's Hospital. When a hardness is left by chronic inflammation at each ex- tremity of the epididymis, earthy matter is sometimes found in such swellings of the globus major or minor ; and a view of an epididymis in this state I have given in Plate XIII., being the most frequent seat of such deposits. In very enlarged testes also, amidst the recently effused solid matter of which they are then composed, portions of cartilage are found, and in these is seated a quantity of earth.— [See Plate XIII.] A simple chronic disease of long continuance, and subjected to the consequent changes of the constitution, will sometimes undergo, such alterations, that various appearances will be found developed, exhibiting a pulpy substance in one situation, encysted growths in another, and cartilaginous, with ossific depositions, in a third, of which, the following case offers a good illustration. 2 A](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21298683_0201.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
