Abstract
Until relatively recent times persons lacking completely descended testes were subjected to surgical treatment for the alleviation of this condition. Those acquainted with such procedures will recall the difficulties met with and the incomplete results incident to the process of “lengthening the cord.” In 1930 Schapiro subjected several adolescent boys with incompletely descended testes to medical treatment by employing Aschheim and Zondek’s prehormone. This led to a fair degree of success. Since then Engle (1932a) succeeded in producing complete testicular descent in immature monkeys (Macacus rhesus) by the use of water-soluble fractions of pregnancy urine and anterior pituitary extract. By this method of treatment the cord lengthened naturally. In the successful instances mentioned above, however, the testes had already entered the inguinal canals before treatment was begun. Since testieular descent within the canal is believed by some to occur as a passive phenomenon as this gland enlarges and since th...
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