live only a short time. The penis is ordinarily
defective and there is sometimes another associate malformation. They
are not always disinclined toward the opposite sex.

Polyorchids are persons who have more than two testicles. For a long
time the abnormality was not believed to exist, and some of the
observers denied the proof by postmortem examination of any of the
cases so diagnosed, but there is at present no doubt of the
fact,--three, four, and five testicles having been found at autopsies.
Russell, one of the older writers on the testicle, mentions a monk who
was a triorchid, and was so salacious that his indomitable passion
prevented him from keeping his vows of chastity. The amorous
propensities and generative faculties of polyorchids have always been
supposed greater than ordinary. Russell reports another case of a man
with a similar peculiarity, who was prescribed a concubine as a
reasonable allowance to a man thus endowed.

Morgagni and Meckel say that they never discovered a third testicle in
dissections of reputed triorchids, and though Haller has collected
records of a great number of triorchids, he has never been able to
verify the presence of the third testicle on dissection. Some authors,
including Haller, have demonstrated heredity in examples of
polyorchism. There is an old instance in which two testicles, one above
the other, were found on the right side and one on the left. Macann
describes a recruit of twenty, whose scrotum seemed to be much larger
on the right than on the left side, although it was not pendulous. On
dissection a right and left testicle were found in their normal
positions, but situated on the right side between the groin and the
normal testicle was a supernumerary organ, not in contact, and having a
separate and short cord. Prankard also describes a man with three
testicles. Three cases of triorchidism were found in recruits in the
British Army. Lane reports a supernumerary testis found in the right
half of the scrotum of a boy of fifteen. In a necropsy held on a man
killed in battle, Hohlberg discovered three fully developed testicles,
two on the right side placed one above the other. The London Medical
Record of 1884 quotes Jdanoff of St. Petersburg in mentioning a
soldier of twenty-one who had a supernumerary testicle erroneously
diagnosed as inguinal hernia. Quoted by the same reference, Bulatoff
mentions a soldier who had a third testicle, which diagnosis was
confirmed