It sometimes
attains an enormous size. Leigh mentions a hydrocele weighing 120
pounds, and there are records of hydroceles weighing 40 and 60
pounds. Larrey speaks of a sarcocele in the coverings of the
testicle which weighed 100 pounds. Mursinna describes a hydrocele
which measured 27 inches in its longest and 17 in its transverse
axis.
Tedford gives a curious case of separation of the ovary in a
woman of twenty-eight. After suffering from invagination of the
bowel and inflammation of the ovarian tissue, an ovary was
discharged through an opening in the sigmoid flexure, and thence
expelled from the anus.
In discussing injuries of the vagina, the first to be mentioned
will be a remarkable case reported by Curran. The subject was an
Irish girl of twenty. While carrying a bundle of clothes that
prevented her from seeing objects in front of her, she started to
pass over a stile, just opposite to which a goat was lying. The
woman wore no underclothing, and in the ascent her body was
partially exposed, and, while in this enforced attitude, the
goat, frightened by her approach, suddenly started up, and in so
doing thrust his horn forcibly into her anus and about two or
three inches up her rectum.
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