Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ... ON HYDEOCELE. CHAPTER I. ANATOMY. OF HYDROCELES. The development and anatomy of the parts, so far as they have reference to the several varieties of hydrocele, should be first described, thereby insuring as thorough a knowledge as possible of the normal conditions, before passing to the consideration of the abnormal. The body of the testicle is first represented by an oval mass of whitish blastema, lying below and to the inner side of the kidney, and situated on the inner or concave surface of the Wolffian body. The excretory duct of the Wolffian body lies along its outer or convex edge; whilst on the anterior surface of the Wolffian body lies another excretory duct, having an upper bulbous extremity, and which is called the Miillerian duct. The Wolffian body consists of numerous convoluted tubes, the lower and greater number of B which atrophy and disappear, the upper remaining to form the coni vasculosi in the male and the parovarium in the female, its excretory duct remaining as the vas deferens. A few scattered tubules, and probably their excretory channel, remain as the organ of Giraldes and vas aberrans. The Miillerian duct atrophies in its central portion, leaving its upper extremity as the organ of Morgagni, and its lower part as one of the cornua of the uterus masculinus. The testes, up to the age of five months of foetal life, are situated at the back part of the peritoneal sac, a little below the kidneys, and are consequently invested by peritoneum on their anterior and lateral surfaces. At this time the testes commence to descend into the scrotum, the left preceding the right and pushing in front of them the peritoneal covering. Prolongations of the peritoneal sac, called the vaginal processes, have previously been carried...
