Unusual Find in Ciyptor- 

 chidectomy* 



G. A. Johnson, D. V. S., Sioux City 



In operating on a cryptorchid horse recently 

 I encountered, what was to me a pecuhar con- 

 dition, the testicle was located in the abdominal 

 cavity near the internal inguinal ring ; but it was 

 covered with a membranous sack that felt in size, 

 shape and consistency practically the same as the 

 tunica vaginalis when in its proper place. 



This membrane had to be ruptured before the 

 testicle could be exposed; and as near as I was 

 able to make out the condition was much the 

 same as though the tunica vaginalis had been 

 turned back into the abdominal cavity, instead 

 of lying in the inguinal canal as normally, but if 

 this was the case how did the testicle come to 

 be on the inside of this membrane? 



While this condition may be familiar to those 

 who do considerable cryptorchid castrating, it was 

 the first case of the kind with which I have met. 



•Reprinted from the Miasouri Valley Vtterinary Bulletin, May, 1908. 



