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Show l54 m z'Zw d' bmt Vessels 0f tbc particular Distribution (ft/M Absor rm! Paris (y the Body, Former, on the beginning of the cord. i5; The absorbents which arise out of glands of the grom have also edge of the obliquus evtcrnus, the absorbent swelled. the retc testis are exceedingly large, and appear to have tio connection with its coats. A very beautiful preparation of these vessels I made in ABSORBICNTS OI" THE SCROTUM. 1777: I injected the vas deferens with quicksilver, and had in view not only the filling of the epididymis, but the tubuli testis themselves, I had to the groin, and These go with the cutaneous veins of the scrotum nt glands there, which sufficiently amount for that swelling of the absorbe for the scrotum is commonly ascribed to sympathy with the testicle, which have sustained also sends vessels to the body of the testicle, ed. From this anasi its life when the spermatic artery has been destroy enee of the vessels of tomosis of vessels it is easy to conceive that turgcsc of the vessels of the scro- the testicle, may occasion a turgescence at first often t‘rystpelatous, is scrotum the of ation tum. The inflamm absorbent glands, through and frequently extends itselfto the neighbouring the medium of the absorbents. forced the mercury along the epididymis, and was delighted to see it get into the body of the testicle; the mercury continued to descend very quickly through the glass injecting tube, but I soon found that it was not running into the tubuli testis, but into some vessels which mounted along the cord; these I soon perceived were absorbents, The preparation was dried, afterwards put into oil of turpentine; the absorbents are distinctly seen rising out of the rete testis. I have also injected them from every part of the cpididymis, from its superior extremity, from the middle, and from the lower end. The vasculum aberreiis Halleri is not an absorbent vessel, and cannot possibly return the semen to the blood; it is a lusus naturze, and sometimes is a tube closed at the opposite end, or, after many convolutions, returns back again upon itself, and terminates where THE ABSORBENTS OF THE TESTICLE of the body May be divided into four classes: those of its coats, those epididymis. The of the] testicle, those of the rete testis, and those of the ca rimme- ragtim- first I have usually distinguished by the name of lympbnlz ;' the third, lyni- proprm testis im lynzpbat of name the by Iir ; the second, dis. pbatirrt rcle fer/ix; and the fourth, by the name of lympbatzca cpldzdylm d, lying between The absorbents of the tunica vaginalis are easily discovere the reflection of that coat and the tunica albuginea. Though they are the testicle '. thus situated, I know that they belong equally to the body of the albuginea co- they are in great numbers, and I have sometimes shewn there is not any vered with absorbetits injected with quicksilver; perhaps more numerous, part of the human body where the absorbents are larger or albuginea, and the leave soon They here. than part, the in proportion to d preget upon the cord, where they are joined by others to be describe upon the an- sently; but the tunica vaginalis has also other absorbents, body terior and lateral parts, which have not the least connection With the v;ith the of the testicle, nor with the albuginea, and which also soon blend ormer, . «51" "any. rim-#1.." was is up. WW3 it began. initiates. It sometimes mounts four inches upon the cord, and then ter- Sometimes it is not a quarter of an inch in length. I have seen it convolute like the cpididymis itself; from which it could not be distin- guished, till by maceration and dissection the cellular membrane had been removed. It may be compared with the diverticuluiu ilii, so frequently met with in the human intestines. The absorbents having reached the cord, form from six to twelve trunks, or more; some of these are some- times larger than a crow-quill : they do not appear to aiiastoniose with one another as they pass along the cord; at first they ruti straight upwards, in the direction of the ring of the external oblique muscle; allei' which they are bent upon themselves, and pass a little way in the direction of the spine of the ilium; after which they are bent as it were a second time tipon themselves, and rtin over the anterior surface of the psoas muscle, and terminate at last in the lumbar glands. The reason of their termination, so distant from their origin, will easily occur to those who reflect that the original situation of the testicle was at this place, and that it was natural for it, like the other viscera, to receive its blood-vessels and nerves X 2 from |