The child cried if pressure was applied to the tumor and there was every evidence that the tumor was a testicle.
Hutcheson, quoted by Russell, has given a curious case in an English seaman who, as was the custom at that time, was impressed into service by H.M.S.Druid in 1807 from a trading ship off the coast of Africa.
The man said he had been examined by dozens of ship-surgeons, but was invariably rejected on account of rupture in both groins.

The scrotum was found to be an empty bag, and close examination showed that the testicles occupied the seats of the supposed rupture.

As soon as the discovery was made the man became unnerved and agitated, and on re-examining the parts the testicles were found in the scrotum.

When he found that there was no chance for escape he acknowledged that he was an impostor and gave an exhibition in which, with incredible facility, he pulled both testes up from the bottom of the scrotum to the external abdominal ring.

At the word of command he could pull up one testicle, then another, and let them drop simultaneously; he performed other like feats so rapidly that the movements could not be distinguished.
In this connection Russell speaks of a man whose testicle was elevated every time the east wind blew, which caused him a sense of languor and relaxation; the same author describes a man whose testicles ascended into the inguinal canal every time he was in the company of women.
Inversion of the testicle is of several varieties and quite rare, it has been recognized by Sir Astley Cooper, Boyer, Maisonneuve, Royet, and other writers.
The anomalies of the vas deferens and seminal vesicles are of little interest and will be passed with mention of the case of Weber, who found the seminal vesicles double; a similar conformation has been seen in hermaphrodites..