Observations on the testicles / by James Russell.

Date:
1833
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Observations on the testicles / by James Russell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    entirely wanting, both in the scrotum and in the abdomen, is a very rare occur- rence. A few cases of monorchides of a some- what equivocal character, are found in the records of medicine. They are modified by different circumstances, which consti- tute three varieties. In the first variety, the solitary testicle was divided in the middle by a deep fis- sure, the lobes on each side were as large as a full grown testicle, and each was pro- vided with a spermatic chord, which ran up to the same side of the body. The fissure, the lobes, and the duplication of parts, obviously result from the partial coalescence of two testicles. o
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