Observations on the descent of the testicle with special reference to spontaneous descent at puberty

The testicle is normally in the scrotum at birth, but its descent may be arrested at any point from its origin near the kidney to its final destination.The majority of so-called undescended testicles should be described as partially descended testicles.At the present time, surgery and endocrine therapy are active lines of treatment.However, there is an increasing tendency to trust to spontaneous descent at puberty, and the object of this paper is to justify that policy in particular cases. Previous reports of spontaneous descentIn 1918, H. G. Armstrong, Medical Officer to Wellington College, Berk- shire, wrote in the Guy's Hospital Gazette that during the previous seven years, seven boys among approximately one thousand new entrants were found to have complete absence of both testicles