General Retrospect

direction. He had never received a blow on the testicle. An incision being made, the foreigp body, which, as was suspected, was quite free, was readily removed. In form it was ovoid, in colour white and shining. When divided it was seen to consist of two substances, a central yellowish matter, and a fibrous tissue, arranged in concentric lamine. The author remarks, that although this peculiar body was perfectly unattached, the mark of a pedicie rendered it probable that it was once connected with the serous membrane, and that the pedicle had gradually become attenuated until it was entirely separated. He regarded this body as the exciting cause of the fluid contents of the hydrocele.