by several of his confreres. They recommended dismissal of
the man from the service, as the third testicle, usually resting in
some portion of the inguinal canal, caused extra exposure to traumatic
influence.

Venette gives an instance of four testicles, and Scharff, in the
Ephemerides, mentions five; Blasius mentions more than three testicles,
and, without citing proof, Buffon admits the possibility of such
occurrence and adds that such men are generally more vigorous.

Russell mentions four, five, and even six testicles in one individual;
all were not verified on dissection. He cites an instance of six
testicles four of which were of usual size and two smaller than
ordinary.

Baillie, the Ephemerides, and Schurig mention fusion of the testicles,
or synorchidism, somewhat after the manner of the normal disposition of
the batrachians and also the kangaroos, in the former of which the
fusion is abdominal and in the latter scrotal. Kerckring has a
description of an individual in whom the scrotum was absent.

In those cases in which the testicles are still in the abdominal cavity
the individuals are termed cryptorchids. Johnson has collected the
results of postmortem examinations of 89 supposed cryptorchids. In
eight of this number no testicles were found postmortem, the number
found in the abdomen was uncertain, but in 18 instances both testicles
were found in the inguinal canal, and in eight only one was found in
the inguinal canal, the other not appearing. The number in which the
semen was examined microscopically was 16, and in three spermatozoa
were found in the semen; one case was dubious, spermatozoa being found
two weeks afterward on a boy's shirt. The number having children was
ten. In one case a monorchid generated a cryptorchid child. Some of the
cryptorchids were effeminate, although others were manly with good
evidences of a beard. The morbid, hypochondriac, the voluptuous, and
the imbecile all found a place in Johnson's statistics; and although
there are evidences of the possession of the generative function,
still, we are compelled to say that the chances are against fecundity
of human cryptorchids. In this connection might be quoted the curious
case mentioned by Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, of a soldier who was hung for
rape. It was alleged that no traces of testicles were found externally
or internally yet semen containing spermatozoa was found in the seminal
vesicles. Spermatozoa have been found days and