Inversion of the testicle is of several varieties and quite rare,
it has been recognized by Sir Astley Cooper, Boyer, Maisonneuve,
Royet, and other writers.
The anomalies of the vas deferens and seminal vesicles are of
little interest and will be passed with mention of the case of
Weber, who found the seminal vesicles double; a similar
conformation has been seen in hermaphrodites.
CHAPTER VII.
ANOMALIES OF STATURE, SIZE, AND DEVELOPMENT.
Giants.--The fables of mythology contain accounts of horrible
monsters, terrible in ferocity, whose mission was the destruction
of the life of the individuals unfortunate enough to come into
their domains. The ogres known as the Cyclops, and the fierce
anthropophages, called Lestrygons, of Sicily, who were neighbors
of the Cyclops, are pictured in detail in the "Odyssey" of Homer.
Nearly all the nations of the earth have their fairy tales or
superstitions of monstrous beings inhabiting some forest,
mountain, or cave; and pages have been written in the heroic
poems of all languages describing battles between these monsters
and men with superhuman courage, in which the giant finally
succumbs.
The word giant is derived indirectly from the old English word
"geant," which in its turn came from the French of the conquering
Normans.
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