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thirteen years old, the (welling becoming troublefome, 
and the people in the country not caring to meddle 
with ir, he was brought to London. 
Two or three gentlemen of the profeffion, to 
whom he was (Lowed, took it for a fchirrhous tefti- 
cle, and advifed the extirpation of it j to which the 
child’s friends would not confent. 
When he was brought to me, I examined him 
very carefully, and was fatisfied that the tumor, 
(which was now about as big as a middling chef- 
nut) was not formed by the tefticle : but, though 
I was clear that it was not formed by that gland, 
yet I could not find any teftis on that fide. 
The (welling was (fill perfectly void of pain; had 
a ftony, incompreffible, hardnefs ; was troublefome 
to the child when at play or ufing any brifk exercife, 
but never gave him any uneafinefs when he fat, or 
(food (fill. It had all the appearance of being de- 
pendent from the fpermatic procefs ; but the pro- 
>cefs, tho’ it had neither the look nor the feel of being 
difeafed, was yet too large, and too full for a child of 
that age, and larger and fuller than that of the other 
fide. The perfect equality and fmoothnefs of the 
tumor, its extreme, incompreflibility and its being per- 
fectly free from pain, even when prefied with fome 
force, were the circumftances which induced me to 
believe that it was not the tefticle ; but, tho’ I was 
in my own mind fatisfied of that, yet I cannot fay 
that I was by any means clear what it was ; and all 
that I could determine, was, that it certainly ought 
to be removed ; as well on account of the trou- 
ble it now gave, and its manifeft difpofition to 
increafe, 
