. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology. Anatomy; Physiology; Zoology. much enlarged ; its head was filled with soft concrete matter, surrounding an irregular cavity with which a fistulous sinus com- municated ; its tail contained a similar sub- stance without any external opening. The various appearances described are depicted in the adjoining figure, which was taken from the recent specimen. Similar appearances to those noticed in this case have been described and figured by Cruveilhier, in his " Anatomic ;* He considers that the dis- ease proceeds from the head of
. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology. Anatomy; Physiology; Zoology. much enlarged ; its head was filled with soft concrete matter, surrounding an irregular cavity with which a fistulous sinus com- municated ; its tail contained a similar sub- stance without any external opening. The various appearances described are depicted in the adjoining figure, which was taken from the recent specimen. Similar appearances to those noticed in this case have been described and figured by Cruveilhier, in his " Anatomic ;* He considers that the dis- ease proceeds from the head of the epidi- dymis towards the tail, and that the body of the testicle is affected only consecutively. I believe, myself, that the yellow deposit is the ordinary result of chronic inflammation of the testicle in whatever way produced ; but that the peculiar appearances noticed in the case just related and likewise described by Cru- veilhier, — I mean the small isolated masses in the substance of the gland, and radiating towards the mediastinum, — are only observed in those cases in which the disease originates in the epididymis, and thence spreads°to the body of the testicle, and in which the part is examined before the organ has become ex- tensively diseased. These appearances are not often seen, because it is not often that it becomes necessary to remove a testicle in such a condition, which is indeed a curable one unless complicated with suppuration. Cruveilhier supposes that this matter is effu- sed in the areolar tissue of the testicle, and radiates along the fibrous prolongations from the corpus Highmori. I feel satisfied, however, from my own observations, that he is mis- taken, and that the interior of the tubuli is the original seat of the deposit. This yellow substance has been called the yellow tubercle of the testis ; but, as it differs from tubercular deposit, the term is objectionable and liable to lead to error. It is evidently coagulable lymph, which becomes
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