weeks after castration,
and the individuals during this period were capable of impregnation,
but in these cases the reservoirs were not empty, although the spring
had ceased to flow. Beigel, in Virchow's Archives, mentions a
cryptorchid of twenty-two who had nocturnal emissions containing
spermatozoa and who indulged in sexual congress. Partridge describes a
man of twenty-four who, notwithstanding his condition, gave evidences
of virile seminal flow.

In some cases there is anomalous position of the testicle. Hough
mentions an instance in which, from the great pain and sudden
appearance, a small tumor lying against the right pubic bone was
supposed to be a strangulated hernia. There were two well-developed
testicles in the scrotum, and the hernia proved to be a third. McElmail
describes a soldier of twenty-nine, who two or three months before
examination felt a pricking and slight burning pain near the internal
aperture of the internal inguinal canal, succeeded by a swelling until
the tumor passed into the scrotum. It was found in the upper part of
the scrotum above the original testicle, but not in contact, and was
about half the size of the normal testicle; its cord and epididymis
could be distinctly felt and caused the same sensation as pressure on
the other testicle did.

Marshall mentions a boy of sixteen in whom the right half of the
scrotum was empty, although the left was of normal size and contained a
testicle. On close examination another testicle was found in the
perineum; the boy said that while running he fell down, four years
before, and on getting up suffered great pain in the groin, and this
pain recurred after exertion. This testicle was removed successfully to
the scrotum. Horsley collected 20 instances of operators who made a
similar attempt, Annandale being the first one; his success was likely
due to antisepsis, as previously the testicles had always sloughed.
There is a record of a dog remarkable for its salacity who had two
testicles in the scrotum and one in the abdomen; some of the older
authors often indulged in playful humor on this subject.

Brown describes a child with a swelling in the perineum both painful
and elastic to the touch. The child cried if pressure was applied to
the tumor and there was every evidence that the tumor was a testicle.
Hutcheson, quoted by Russell, has given a curious case in an English
seaman who, as was the custom at that time, was impressed into service
by H.