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ferred to as androgenic tissue, in the present book, because like 

 the androgenic zone they are transient and disappear at an 

 early age, hypertrophy when associated with certain herma- 

 phroditic conditions, and give rise to virilism when the site of 

 a cancerous growth. The term androgenic is introduced to 

 indicate their functional masculinizing potentiality. These 

 accessory bodies were described by Marchand 430 and are often 

 referred to in the literature as Marchand's bodies. 



The accessory androgenic tissue occurs in various parts of 

 the organism, beneath the lower pole of the kidney, 430 along 

 the internal spermatic artery, 431 on the ileopsoas muscle, 453 in 

 the solar 507 or renal plexuses, 556 between the transverse colon 

 and the spleen, in the right lobe of the liver, 478 in the pan- 

 creas, 535 and particularly in association with the reproductive 

 organs. This tissue when associated with the reproductive 

 organs of the male occurs along the spermatic cord, between 

 the testis and epididymis, in the rete testis, and in the para- 

 didymis. 453 In the female it is observed in the ligamentum 

 latum, 623 on the Fallopian tubes, and in the ovaries. 363 - 656 

 Schmorl 656 found such androgenic tissue in 92 per cent of autop- 

 sies. Wiesel 678 found it in 76 per cent of the genitalia of new- 

 born children and Aichel 8 found it in the broad ligament of 

 every newborn female child which he examined. Aschoft" 21 

 denies this, however, and thinks Aichel confused chromaphil 

 with interrenal tissue. 



On the basis of his embryological investigations, Aichel 8 con- 

 cluded that Marchand's bodies or as we have termed them, 

 the accessory androgenic bodies, are entities to be differentiated 

 from the true accessory bodies which he in close proximity to 

 the main glands. According to Aichel the androgenic bodies 

 arise from the degenerating tubules of the paroophoron and 

 the epoophoron and are thus embryologically distinct from 

 the true accessory adrenals. AichePs views have received little 

 attention from subsequent authors who have inclined to the 

 view that the androgenic bodies represent adrenal tissue dis- 



