rheumatic inflammation of the testicle, in which the
affection flitted from one testicle to the other, and alternated with
rheumatic pains elsewhere.

There is a case of retraction of the testicle reported in a young
soldier of twenty-one who, when first seen, complained of a swelling in
the right groin. He stated that while riding bareback his horse
suddenly plunged and threw him on the withers. He at once felt a
sickening pain in the groin and became so ill that he had to dismount.
On inspection an oval tumor was seen in the groin, tender to the touch
and showing no impulse on coughing. The left testicle was in its usual
position, but the right was absent. The patient stated positively that
both testicles were in situ before the accident. An attempt at
reduction was made, but the pain was so severe that manipulation could
not be endured. A warm bath and laudanum were ordered, but
unfortunately, as the patient at stool gave a sudden bend to the left,
his testicle slipped up into the abdomen and was completely lost to
palpation. Orchitis threatened, but the symptoms subsided; the patient
was kept under observation for some weeks, and then as a tentative
measure, discharged to duty. Shortly afterward he returned, saying that
he was ill, and that while lifting a sack of corn his testicle came
partly down, causing him great pain. At the time of report his left
testicle was in position, but the right could not be felt. The scrotum
on that side had retracted until it had almost disappeared; the right
external ring was very patent, and the finger could be passed up in the
inguinal canal; there was no impulse on coughing and no tendency to
hernia.

A unique case of ectopia of the testicle in a man of twenty-four is
given by Popoff. The scrotum was normally developed, and the right
testicle in situ. The left half of the scrotum was empty, and at the
root of the penis there was a swelling the size of a walnut, covered
with normal skin, and containing an oval body about four-fifths the
size of the testicle, but softer in constituency. The patient claimed
that this swelling had been present since childhood. His sexual power
had been normal, but for the past six months he had been impotent. In
childhood the patient had a small inguinal hernia, and Popoff thought
this caused the displacement of the testicle.

A somewhat similar case occurred in the Hotel-Dieu, Paris. Through the
agency of compression one of the testes was for