489 tains of the mitral valve, and on those of the aortic semilunars. There was a large yellow fibrinous deposit in the spleen. The left femoral vein was obliterated and converted into a thin cord, the result of an attack of phlebitis five years before death. (To be continued.) HARVEIAN SOCIETY. THURSDAY, APRIL 19TH, 1855. DR. SIBSON, PRESIDENT, IN THE CHAIR. MR. WEEDON COOKE read a paper on SOME OF THE DISEASES OF THE TESTICLE. After taking a rapid review of the literature of the subject, in

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... e course of which the excessive nomenclature of disease affecting this organ was reprobated, the author proceeded to show that the effects of inflammation of the testis were identical with those changes observed in the kidney, liver, and lungs; that the deposition of lymph in the testis, known as sarcocele, was, when observed in the lungs, called hepatization; that the effusion of serum, called hydrocele, was another effect of the same cause, acting in all the organs of the body in a like manner; and that atrophy of the gland, although sometimes resulting from immoderate and long-continued discharges, such as diarrhœa, contracted in warm climates, and by immoral courses, was generally the result of occlusion of the seminiferous ducts by lymph, the effect of inflammationthe same abnormal change that the lungs undergo under the like circumstances. The granular disease, or hernia testis, was likewise referred to as an effect of inflammation resulting in suppuration, the healing process by granulation being allowed by neglect to become too exuberant. These results of inflammation the author wished to see grouped under one head, and not studied separately as distinct diseases of the gland, with long hard names. The other special diseases, tubercle, cancer, and cystic, were also referred to, but principally to show that there were no peculiarities differing from the same affections in other organs, excepting that cancer was more rarely seen in the testis than is generally believed. Several interesting cases were recited, showing the consecutive nature of the changes consequent on inflammation affecting this gland; and one of particular interest, demonstrating the effect of fever and diarrhoea, in an Indian officer, in producing atrophy of the testes, and consequent impotency, until restored by iron and acid and electro-magnetism. Early treatment was strongly urged. In acute cases of orchitis, the sedative treatment-one-third of a I