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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER XIII
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Orchitis threatened, but the symptoms subsided; the patient was kept under observation for some weeks, and then as a tentative measure, discharged to duty.

Shortly afterward he returned, saying that he was ill, and that while lifting a sack of corn his testicle came partly down, causing him great pain.

At the time of report his left testicle was in position, but the right could not be felt.

The scrotum on that side had retracted until it had almost disappeared; the right external ring was very patent, and the finger could be passed up in the inguinal canal; there was no impulse on coughing and no tendency to hernia.
A unique case of ectopia of the testicle in a man of twenty-four is given by Popoff.

The scrotum was normally developed, and the right testicle in situ.


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