Archive image from page 213 of The cyclopædia of anatomy and. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology cyclopdiaofana0402todd Year: 1849 myself: part of the walls of the cysts are cut away to exhibit their interiors. The cysts are liable to inflammation, which causes more or less alteration in the quality and appearance of the fluid contained in them. The fluid may become albuminous and assume the straw or amber colour of ordinary hydrocele; and the cyst may contain lymph, form adhesions, or be lined with a false membrane, the fluid being thick and turbid. The cysts sometimes also become fil
Archive image from page 213 of The cyclopædia of anatomy and. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology cyclopdiaofana0402todd Year: 1849 myself: part of the walls of the cysts are cut away to exhibit their interiors. The cysts are liable to inflammation, which causes more or less alteration in the quality and appearance of the fluid contained in them. The fluid may become albuminous and assume the straw or amber colour of ordinary hydrocele; and the cyst may contain lymph, form adhesions, or be lined with a false membrane, the fluid being thick and turbid. The cysts sometimes also become filled with blood, constituting a variety of haematocele. 2. A cyst may form between the tunica albuginea and the visceral layer of the tunica vaginalis, separating the two membranes which are naturally closely adherent to each other. This is a very rare form of hydrocele. A spe- cimen which I discovered accidentally in dis- section, is represented in the annexed wood- cut, (fig. 642.) The cyst contained about two Fig. 642. drachms of fluid, and is situated along the front of the testicle; it is a little thickened. A sec- tion of it is preserved in the Hunterian Museum. Sir B. Brodie has described a very similar specimen. In the museum of St. Thomas's Hospital there is a specimen of a small cyst apparently developed from the epididymis : in its subsequent growth it had extended on the fore-part of the testicle, separating the tunica vaginalis from the tunica albuginea. 3. In examining a healthy testicle I once found six or seven small cysts about the size of currants, studding the surface of the loose portion of the tunica vaginalis. Two of them were situated in a part of the membrane ex- tending up the cord. They projected in- ternally, and contained a limpid fluid. I have twice since seen a similar kind of cyst in the same portion of the tunica vaginalis. Similar adventitious cysts have also been observed on the internal surface of the sac of a simple hydrocele, and a prep
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