Anomalies and Curiosities of MedicineGould, George M. (George Milbrey)
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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
Gould, George M. (George Milbrey)
Abnormalities, Human; Medicine -- Anecdotes
4. All the degrees of duplication have been met with, from a fissure of
the glans penis to the presence of two distinct penises inserted at
some distance from each other in the inguinal regions.
5. The two penises are usually somewhat defective as regards prepuce,
urethra, etc.; they may lie side by side, or more rarely may be
situated anteroposteriorly; they may be equal in size, or less commonly
one is distinctly larger than the other; and one or both may be
perforate or imperforate.
6. The scrotum may be normal or split; the testicles, commonly two in
number, may be normal or atrophic, descended or undescended; the
prostate may be normal or imperfectly developed, as may also the vasa
deferentia and vesiculae seminales.
7. The commonly associated defects are: More or less completely septate
bladder, atresia ani, or more rarely double anus, double urethra,
increased breadth of the bony pelvis with defect of the symphysis
pubis, and possibly duplication of the lower end of the spine, and
hernia of some of the abdominal contents into a perineal pouch. Much
more rarely, duplication of the heart, lungs, stomach, and kidneys has
been noted, and the lower limbs may be shorter than normal.
CLASS XI.--Cases of fetus in fetu, those strange instances in which one
might almost say that a man may be pregnant with his brother or sister,
or in which an infant may carry its twin without the fact being
apparent, will next be discussed. The older cases were cited as being
only a repetition of the process by which Eve was born of Adam. Figure
63 represents an old engraving showing the birth of Eve. Bartholinus,
the Ephemerides, Otto, Paullini, Schurig, and Plot speak of instances
of fetus in fetu. Ruysch describes a tumor contained in the abdomen of
a man which was composed of hair, molar teeth, and other evidences of a
fetus. Huxham reported to the Royal Society in 1748 the history of a
child which was born with a tumor near the anus larger than the whole
body of the child; this tumor contained rudiments of an embryo. Young
speaks of a fetus which lay encysted between the laminae of the
transverse mesocolon, and Highmore published a report of a fetus in a
cyst communicating with the duodenum. Dupuytren gives an example in a
boy of thirteen, in whom was found a fetus. Gaetano-Nocito, cited by
Philipeaux, has the history of a taken with a great pain in the right
hypochondrium, and from which issued subsequently fetal bones and a
mass of macerated embryo. His mother had had several double
pregnancies, and from the length of the respective tibiae one of the
fetuses seemed to be of two months' and the other of three months'
intrauterine life. The man died five years after the abscess had burst
spontaneously.
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