Fournier supposed that the
semen ejaculated vigorously and followed the fissure on the back
of the penis to the uterus, the membrane of the vagina
supplanting the deficient wall of the urethra. The penis was
short, but about as thick as ordinary.
Gray mentions a curious case in a man afflicted with hypospadias
who, suffering with delusions, was confined in the insane asylum
at Utica. When he determined to get married, fully appreciating
his physical defect, he resolved to imitate nature, and being of
a very ingenious turn of mind, he busied himself with the
construction of an artificial penis. While so engaged he had
seized every opportunity to study the conformation of this organ,
and finally prepared a body formed of cotton, six inches in
length, and shaped like a penis, minus a prepuce. He sheathed it
in pig's gut and gave it a slight vermilion hue. To the touch it
felt elastic, and its shape was maintained by a piece of
gutta-percha tubing, around which the cotton was firmly wound. It
was fastened to the waist-band by means of straps, a central and
an upper one being so arranged that the penis could be thrown
into an erect position and so maintained. He had constructed a
flesh-colored covering which completely concealed the straps.
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