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We are indebted to a valuable correspondent for this translation, from the only copy of M. Larrey's work yet in England, of an interesting history of a most extraordinary disease. Under the term sarcocele a disease is here described differing essentially from the affection, which in this country has been designated by that appellation. The sarcocele of Europe is a disease of the body of the testicle, liable to become seriously active from external accident, from irritating applications, and from incisions made into it when mistaken for hydrocele. But we are assured in this memoir, that the sarcocele of Egypt and other hot climates, is a carneous mass enormous in size, possessing little sensibility, having no other connection with the testicle than being in its neighbourhood; bearing the potential and even the actual cautery, and suffering setons to be passed through it, with impunity : and occurring also in the female. The sarcocele of Europe is an organic disease of the testes; (Vid. Jour. for March, p. 276) the sarcocele of Egypt is a disease of the scrotum and capsulæ of the testes in the male, and of the common teguments and cellular substance of the labia pudendi of the female, connected with elephantiasis, and being, possibly, one form of that disease. Ed.