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Treatment (Suspend the testicles or keep)

Suspend the testicles, or keep the patient on his back, apply lotions of lead-water to the parts; the cold bath.

Cancer of the Testicle.

Symptoms. The testicle is enlarged, hardened, craggy and unequal in its surface, painful on being handled, with irregular pains shooting up the groin, into the back, without any previous inflammation, disease, or external violence.

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