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INFLAMMATION OF THE TESTICLE AND EPIDIDYMIS. 
cold water, solution of acetate of lead, or similar fluids may be made. 
In human medicine, orchitis is treated by compresses of adhesive plaster, 
which may be tried in larger animals, or in dogs can be replaced by 
painting the scrotum with collodion. Scarification, though often recom¬ 
mended, is of doubtful value; if only applied to the surface it is without 
effect, if it reaches the processus vaginalis it is identical with castration. 
The latter may certainly appear indicated, especially in infectious orchitis, 
with simultaneous disease of the spermatic cord. Should signs of abscess 
formation appear in the scrotum, an incision must be made; and if high 
fever, &c., result, castration must be resorted to, and can be carried out 
in the usual way. As far as possible, any diseased portions of spermatic 
cord should be removed. Hertwig has seen recovery from spontaneous 
orchitis in the horse after low diet, withdrawal of blood, and the use of 
laxatives. Mercurial ointment with iodide of potassium and belladonna 
poultices were applied externally. 
(3.) TUMOURS OF THE TESTICLE (SARCOCELE) 
AND OF THE EPIDIDYMIS. 
Since olden times every abnormal swelling of the testicle has been 
termed sarcocele. The condition is seen in various domesticated animals. 
In swine and cattle tuberculous growths occur in the testicle; in horses 
sarcomata, carcinomata, myomata, dermoid cysts, with hair and teeth, 
have been met with, and in dogs both sarcomata and carcinomata. Hess 
saw tuberculosis of the epididymis in a steer: the end of the epididymis 
formed a swelling as large as a goose’s egg, and was divided from the 
testicle by a distinct furrow. Schmidt saw tuberculosis of both testicles 
in a bull; Arens in a boar ; the scrotum showed numerous fistulous 
openings communicating with abscesses containing caseous pus; the two 
testicles weighed nearly 20 lbs. The horse’s testicle, affected with 
medullary cancer, which Puntigam described, weighed 13 lbs. Lothian 
found atheromatous cysts in a horse’s testicle. 
Symptoms and course. One or both testicles slowly increase in size, 
the swelling appearing painless. Sometimes the surface of the testicle 
letains its smooth character, sometimes it appears lobulated or knotted. 
The swelling may become very considerable ; at Alfort a horse was seen 
that had a testicle weighing 20 lbs. 
Maligant new growths often spread to the spermatic cord, causing it 
to swell and become hard, uneven, or lobulated. Where carcinomata 
exist, the lymph glands of the lumbar region also become swollen, 
and in the case of carcinoma of the testicle shown in fig 174, they were 
so gieatly enlarged as almost to prevent the hand passing into the 
abdominal cavity. Provided new growths remain confined to the 
