Abstract
The first description of carcinoma of the scrotum has been ascribed to Bassius by several authors whose example was followed by Kipling (1969). The refer ence, thus copied, was to the Tenth Observation, 'Scrotum sphacelo consumptum et fenatum in the Anatomical, Surgical and Medical Observations of Heinrich Bass (Bassius) published in 1731. One of us (M.D.K.) has recently been able to consult in the British Museum the only available copy of this work in Great Britain, a copy that has lain in the shelves with leaves uncut for the past two hundred years. Observatio X on 'A case of spongy scrotum, entirely destroyed and regenerated' may be trans lated in abbreviated form from the Latin as follows :
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