To many of these cases have been
attributed exaggerated function, notwithstanding the fact that
modern observation almost invariably shows that the virile power
diminishes in exact proportion to the extent of duplication.
Taylor quotes a description of a monster, exhibited in London,
with two distinct penises, but with only one distinct testicle on
either side. He could exercise the function of either organ.
Schenck, Schurig, Bartholinus, Loder, and Ollsner report
instances of diphallic terata; the latter case a was in a soldier
of Charles VI, twenty-two years old, who applied to the surgeon
for a bubonic affection, and who declared that he passed urine
from the orifice of the left glans and also said that he was
incapable of true coitus. Valentini mentions an instance in a boy
of four, in which the two penises were superimposed. Bucchettoni
speaks of a man with two penises placed side by side. There was
an anonymous case described of a man of ninety-three with a penis
which was for more than half its length divided into two distinct
members, the right being somewhat larger than the left. From the
middle of the penis up to the symphysis only the lower wall of
the urethra was split. Jenisch describes a diphallic infant, the
offspring of a woman of twenty-five who had been married five
years.
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