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or rosy tissue, ordinarily containing no sperm ato- 

 zoids. Sometimes it is rudimentary, atrophied, 

 scarcely recognizable; however, in some instances it 

 has been seen with the dimensions of the ordinary 

 testicle. 



Like all glands in abnormal position, the testicle 

 in ectopia is subject to neoplastic degeneration. 

 Sometimes it is very large, deformed by one or 

 several cysts, whose contents vary; it may give to 

 the hand the sensation of a double testicle, when one 

 of these cj- sts has become pedunculated; exceptionally 

 cartilaginous or bony little masses have been found 

 in them ; sometimes sarcomatous or carcinomatous 

 degeneration is presented, and the testicle assumes 

 enormous dimensions. Quite frequently also the 

 organ contains sclerostomas which have hollowed its 

 walls. 



General]}^ the diagnosis of cryptorchidy is easy. 

 The noisy manifestations of the animal thus affected 

 and the absence of the mass formed by essential 

 organs of males indicate the trouble. In exploring 

 the inguinal region, if the horse is a ridgling, the 

 testicle or the cicatrix of castration is absent. With 

 monorchids, one side shows the bag empty and 

 without any mark, while onthe other the testicle is 

 there, or, if it has been removed, a cicatricial depres- 

 sion situated near the median line is found. 



On the side of the ectopic gland, sometimes a 

 limar, not depressed, cicatrix is found ; this comes 

 from an incision made to deceive and to make believe 

 that the animal has been castrated. But when the 

 testicle has been excised, the cicatrix is almost 



