M.S. Druid in 1807 from a trading ship off the coast of Africa.
The man said he had been examined by dozens of ship-surgeons, but was
invariably rejected on account of rupture in both groins. The scrotum
was found to be an empty bag, and close examination showed that the
testicles occupied the seats of the supposed rupture. As soon as the
discovery was made the man became unnerved and agitated, and on
re-examining the parts the testicles were found in the scrotum. When
he found that there was no chance for escape he acknowledged that he
was an impostor and gave an exhibition in which, with incredible
facility, he pulled both testes up from the bottom of the scrotum to
the external abdominal ring. At the word of command he could pull up
one testicle, then another, and let them drop simultaneously; he
performed other like feats so rapidly that the movements could not be
distinguished.

In this connection Russell speaks of a man whose testicle was elevated
every time the east wind blew, which caused him a sense of languor and
relaxation; the same author describes a man whose testicles ascended
into the inguinal canal every time he was in the company of women.

Inversion of the testicle is of several varieties and quite rare, it
has been recognized by Sir Astley Cooper, Boyer, Maisonneuve, Royet,
and other writers.

The anomalies of the vas deferens and seminal vesicles are of little
interest and will be passed with mention of the case of Weber, who
found the seminal vesicles double; a similar conformation has been seen
in hermaphrodites.

CHAPTER VII.

ANOMALIES OF STATURE, SIZE, AND DEVELOPMENT.

Giants.--The fables of mythology contain accounts of horrible monsters,
terrible in ferocity, whose mission was the destruction of the life of
the individuals unfortunate enough to come into their domains. The
ogres known as the Cyclops, and the fierce anthropophages, called
Lestrygons, of Sicily, who were neighbors of the Cyclops, are pictured
in detail in the "Odyssey" of Homer. Nearly all the nations of the
earth have their fairy tales or superstitions of monstrous beings
inhabiting some forest, mountain, or cave; and pages have been written
in the heroic poems of all languages describing battles between these
monsters and men with superhuman courage, in which the giant finally
succumbs.

The word giant is derived indirectly from the old English word "geant,"
which in its turn came from the French of the conquer