I WILL not detain the Section long over this case, the interest of which is purely histological. The testis which I exhibit this evening was removed from a man~ aged thirty~ two months ago, at the Mater Misericordim Hospital by Mr. Chance. The patient had first noticed the swelling about two years previously, and it had since increased gradually and painlessly, with absence of testicular sensation. No tubercular or syphilitic history of patient or family, and no history of injury was

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... The testis was enlarged to the size of a medium-sized orange; it was globular and hard. On section the substance was white, mottled with yellowish patches, which looked to the naked eye like caseated portions, and which, on microscopic e~amination, were fattydegenerated and almost devoid of structure. There was no trace of tubercular new growth. The white tissue consisted of cells and a stroma. The cells were largish~ oval, uni-nucleated, and offered little or no variation in size or shape. They did not lŸ in actual contact, but each was separated from its neighbour by a small quantity of homogeneous intercellular substance. Their characteristics were, on the whole~ of the connective tissue rather than of the epithelial type. The stroma was trabecular in character~ the main trabecul~e being comparatively thick, and running a straight course through a considerable part of the sections. From them were given off more delicate bands~ which in their turn gave origin to still more delicate ones--the same structure prevailing