Archive image from page 223 of The cyclopædia of anatomy and. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology cyclopdiaofana0402todd Year: 1849 1008 TESTICLE (ABNORMAL ANATOMY). siderable firmness and consistency ; the tunica albuginea is thickened, and in some places as dense and indurated as cartilage ; and the surfaces of the tunica vaginalis are closely connected by old adhesions. The glandular structure is partly displaced and atrophied by the pressure of the yellow matter ; and it often happens after some time, that both undergo a slow process of wasting, so that an enlarged and indurated gla
Archive image from page 223 of The cyclopædia of anatomy and. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology cyclopdiaofana0402todd Year: 1849 1008 TESTICLE (ABNORMAL ANATOMY). siderable firmness and consistency ; the tunica albuginea is thickened, and in some places as dense and indurated as cartilage ; and the surfaces of the tunica vaginalis are closely connected by old adhesions. The glandular structure is partly displaced and atrophied by the pressure of the yellow matter ; and it often happens after some time, that both undergo a slow process of wasting, so that an enlarged and indurated gland is progressively reduced, until scarcely any thing remains beyond a mere nodule of the size of a nut at which the spermatic cord terminates. I found, on examination of the body of a man who some few years previously had suffered from chronic inflammation of the testicles, both glands much indurated, but about the natural size. In both, the tubular structure was very deficient, its place being supplied by a dense fibrous tissue. At the upper part of the right testicle there was a yellowish de- posit almost as dense as cartilage, and ex- hibiting very little trace of vascularity. In these indurated testicles the epididymis often escapes the morbid alteration affecting the body of the gland ; in other cases, however, the epididymis is also found nodose, irregular, and hard. It will be perceived, from the pre- ceding observations, that the tendency of this chronic disease is gradually to destroy the integrity of the testicle. If the inflamma- tion be checked in an early stage, the gland is left unimpaired ; if its course be not arrested until a later period, the secreting structure is partly disorganised and reduced in size; but if the disease be allowed to continue un- checked by treatment, the organ is totally destroyed, either by ulceration of its tunics and the escape of the glandular structure in the shape of a fungous growth, or by the slower process of wasting and absor
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