Observations on certain parts of the animal oeconomy. Inclusive of several papers from the Philosophical transactions, etc / by John Hunter ... With notes by Richard Owen.
- John Hunter
- Date:
- 1840
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Observations on certain parts of the animal oeconomy. Inclusive of several papers from the Philosophical transactions, etc / by John Hunter ... With notes by Richard Owen. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Fe 1 al SITUATION OF THE TESTIS IN THE FQITUS. 57 taking another direction, and descending into the perineum. How this is brought about is difficult to say; it may possibly be occa- sioned by something unusual in the construction of the scrotum; or, more probably, bya peculiarity in that of the perineum itself; for itis not easy to imagine how the testicle could make its way to the parts about the perinzeum if these were in a perfectly natural state. 2) The first instance of this kind that occurred to me was the child of a shopkeeper in Oxford-street, which I visited, in company with Dr. Garthshore, about the year 1775; but what became of the a similar case, by Mr. Hunt, a surgeon, at Burford in Oxfordshire, whose apprehensions of what may be the consequences of a testicle remaining in the perinzeum appear to be well founded. The most effectual method of obviating these will probably be to support the testicle in a situation near the groin, by the application of a bandage that may hinder its descent into the perinzeum, by which the parts may be in time so consolidated as to retain it by the side of the » ‘‘ Dear Nir, é “TI take the liberty of writing to you, in consequence of having met with a lusus nature of a peculiar kind, in the son of a man in this neighbourhood. yee , “The boy is about twelve months old: his right testicle is situated about an inch below the termination of the scrotum, and half an- inch on the right side of the centre of the rapha perinzi, where a kind of pouch is formed of the common integuments, without the least from the scrotum; nor can the testis or spermatic process be at any time felt in any part of the scrotum, though I can readily make the testis pass from its situation quite up into the groin; but immedi- and 1 can trace the spermatic chord from the body of the testis up to the ring, running about a fourth of an inch on the right side of the scrotum. Thescrotum on each side appears perfectly formed, and the left testis isin situ naturali. Now, sir,as I conceive this peculiar conformation maybe attended with great inconvenience to the child when he comes to ride on horseback, and on many other occasions, I beg leave to request your opinion upon it, with respect to what ought to be done to prevent accidents, which must, if left in its present situation, often occur. : “ Burford, Oxfordshire. [Signed] Txomas Hunt.”](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33292292_0065.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
