. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology. Anatomy; Physiology; Zoology. 1000 TESTICLE (ABNORMAL ANATOMY). Scarpa.* The disease is of the nature of simple oedema, a watery fluid being diffused throughout the areolar tissue connecting the vessels of the spermatic cord, and enclosed in a sheath, which is invested by the musculo- aponeurotic structure of the cremaster muscle. When the complaint has lasted some time, the sheath is found more or less thickened. The areolar tissue within is infiltrated with a limpid albuminous serum of a white or yel- lowish colour, which flows out in the course of
. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology. Anatomy; Physiology; Zoology. 1000 TESTICLE (ABNORMAL ANATOMY). Scarpa.* The disease is of the nature of simple oedema, a watery fluid being diffused throughout the areolar tissue connecting the vessels of the spermatic cord, and enclosed in a sheath, which is invested by the musculo- aponeurotic structure of the cremaster muscle. When the complaint has lasted some time, the sheath is found more or less thickened. The areolar tissue within is infiltrated with a limpid albuminous serum of a white or yel- lowish colour, which flows out in the course of the dissection. The cells infiltrated with serum are converted into large vesicles, some of which are big enough to admit the tip of the finger. These cells are larger and more delicate towards the base of the swelling, where they sometimes disappear altogether ; so that there is only one considerable cavity at the lowest and more depending part. The base of the swelling corresponds to the point at which the spermatic vessels join the testicle, and at this part a dense septum cuts off all communication with the tunica vaginalis. Jn some instances the effusion extends along the cord into the abdomen, as in a remarkable case related by Mr. Pott. In the annexed figure of this affection, (Jig. 043.), taken from Scarpa, Fig. the envelope of the cremaster is laid open, ex- posing the pyramidal swelling enclosed in its sheath of condensed areolar tissue. The tes- * Memoria sull' Idrocele de Cordone Spermatico. Bertrandi, an Italian surgeon, in a memoir pub- lished by the French Academy of Surgery, in 1778, has given an accurate description of this affection, which, however, he did not sufficiently distinguish from the encysted hydrocele of the cord. He dis- sected on the dead body a diffused hydrocele, which contained twenty ounces of fluid. tide and tunica vaginalis are seen below it. In general anasarca the areolar tissue of the spermatic cord, as well as of the scrotum, is
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