In this
connection might be quoted the curious case mentioned by
Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, of a soldier who was hung for rape. It
was alleged that no traces of testicles were found externally or
internally yet semen containing spermatozoa was found in the
seminal vesicles. Spermatozoa have been found days and 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.
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