(2) Testicles of the same origin, but with coalescence more
general.
(3) A single testicle and two cords.
Gruber of St. Petersburg held a postmortem on a man in January,
1867, in whom the right half of the scrotum, the right testicle,
epididymis, and the scrotal and inguinal parts of the right vas
deferens were absent. Gruber examined the literature for thirty
years up to the time of his report, and found 30 recorded
postmortem examinations in which there was absence of the
testicle, and in eight of these both testicles were missing. As a
rule, natural eunuchs have feeble bodies, are mentally dull, and
live only a short time. The penis is ordinarily defective and
there is sometimes another associate malformation. They are not
always disinclined toward the opposite sex.
Polyorchids are persons who have more than two testicles. For a
long time the abnormality was not believed to exist, and some of
the observers denied the proof by postmortem examination of any
of the cases so diagnosed, but there is at present no doubt of
the fact,--three, four, and five testicles having been found at
autopsies. Russell, one of the older writers on the testicle,
mentions a monk who was a triorchid, and was so salacious that
his indomitable passion prevented him from keeping his vows of
chastity.
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