The amorous propensities and generative faculties of
polyorchids have always been supposed greater than ordinary.
Russell reports another case of a man with a similar peculiarity,
who was prescribed a concubine as a reasonable allowance to a man
thus endowed.
Morgagni and Meckel say that they never discovered a third
testicle in dissections of reputed triorchids, and though Haller
has collected records of a great number of triorchids, he has
never been able to verify the presence of the third testicle on
dissection. Some authors, including Haller, have demonstrated
heredity in examples of polyorchism. There is an old instance in
which two testicles, one above the other, were found on the right
side and one on the left. Macann describes a recruit of twenty,
whose scrotum seemed to be much larger on the right than on the
left side, although it was not pendulous. On dissection a right
and left testicle were found in their normal positions, but
situated on the right side between the groin and the normal
testicle was a supernumerary organ, not in contact, and having a
separate and short cord. Prankard also describes a man with three
testicles. Three cases of triorchidism were found in recruits in
the British Army.
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