4i2 SURGICAL APPLIED ANATOMY. [Chap. xvm. 



resist the growth of testicular tumours. When the 

 testicle suppurates and matter finds an escape through 

 the skin, it is the unyielding character of the tunica 

 albuginea that is mainly answerable for any "fungus" 

 that may form. This fungus merely means the escape 

 of swollen, softened, and inflamed structures through a 

 hole in a more or less rigid membrane, and were that 

 membrane yielding no such protrusion would form. 



Fig. 38. Section of the Left Spermatic Cord of an Adult, at the level 



of the External Abdominal Ring, viewed from above. (From a 



specimen prepared by Mr. W. G. Spencer.) 

 YD, Vas deferens; DA, deferential artery; DV, deferential veins; SA, 



spermatic artery ; CA, creraasteric artery ; CM, cremaster muscle ; PP, iwuu- 



piniform plexus. 



A "fungus" never develops in connection with sup- 

 puration of the epididymis alone ; at the most an. 

 abscess of that part will lead to a troublesome sinus. 



It should be borne in mind that the lymphatics 

 of the scrotum go to the inguinal glands, those of the 

 testicle to the lumbar. 



The spermatic cord. The structures in the 

 cord are (1) the vas deferens, (2) the cremaster 

 muscle (3) the spermatic and (4) cremasteric arteries, 

 and (5) the artery to the vas deferens, (6) the pam- 

 piniform plexus of veins, (7) the genito-crural nerve, 

 (8) sympathetic nerve-fibres, and (9) lymphatics. The 

 vas deferens lies along the posterior aspect of the cord 

 (Fig. 38), and can be detected by the firm, cord-like 

 sensation which it gives when pinched between the 



