SCROTUM • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Scrotum

... bathing the Parts with spiritus mindereri on the first Attack of the Pain, the Swelling of the Testicle was prevented; but where no Mention was made of this Pain till the Swelling had already begun, it commonly ended in a Suppuration of the Scrotum or Testicle, which healed very kindly. We had no Reason to suspect any venereal Taint in any ...

— An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany • Donald Monro

... of these cauponae wore sleeved tunics and dalmatics like women. As in modern Egypt pathic boys, we learn from Catullus, haunted the public baths. Debauchees had signals like freemasons whereby they recognised one another. The Greek Skematizein was made by closing the hand to represent the scrotum and raising the middle finger as if to feel whether a hen had eggs, tater si les poulettes ont l'oeuf: hence the Athenians called it Catapygon or sodomite and the Romans digitus impudicus or infamis, the "medical finger"[FN380] of Rabelais and the Chiromantists. Another sign was to scratch ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 10 • Richard F. Burton