Supposed encephaloid testicle : hermaphrodism / by J. Mason Warren.

  • Jonathan Mason Warren
Date:
[1859?]
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Credit: Supposed encephaloid testicle : hermaphrodism / by J. Mason Warren. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SUPPOSED ENCEPHALOE) TESTICLE HERMAPHEODISM. By J. MASON WARREN, M. D. Communicated to the Boston Society for Medical Improvement and to the American Journal of Medical Sciences WITH A WOOD-CUT. TnoMAS Martin, 21 years of age, applied to me in April, 1859, on account of a great enlargement of what appeared to be the right testicle. His external appearance was that of a young working Irishman. The beard was full, strong, and black; the larynx was of the ordinary size, and the voice masculine; the shoulders were broader than the hips; the muscles were well developed; no fat; height sixty-five inches, of which thirty-three were above the pubis, and thirty-two below. His own history of the case was as follows: Early in life he lost, or had had removed, the left testicle, but could give no particulars of it. The right testicle was greatly enlarged, measuring thirteen inches in circumference, seven and three-quarters in length, egg shaped, and it extended nearly two- thirds of the distance from the pubis to the knee. It was excessively tense, hard, and seemed too heavy to be supposed a hydrocele, although the great evenness of its surface would seem to make such a supposition probable. Some very large veins ran over its surface under the skin. The spermatic cord seemed well defined above the tumour, though a little harder than natural. He complained of considerable pain in the back and loins, which was attributed to the dragging weight upon these parts. The pain in the testicle itself was not excessive. The testicle had been, he says, of normal size till about a year since, when he received a severe kick upon it After the first acute symptoms had subsided, it then commenced to swell slowly h* within the last month it had increased very rapidly. The sexual feelings and power of erection continued natural till about six weeks a*o