When the penis was erect it was bent in the form of
a semicircular bow.
The Transactions of the South Carolina Medical Association
contain an account of a negro of sixty who had urethral stricture
from gonorrhea and who had been treated for fifteen years by
caustics. The penis was seven inches in circumference around the
glans, and but little less near the scrotum. The glans was
riddled with holes, and numerous fistulae existed on the inferior
surface of the urethra, the meatus being impermeable. So great
was the weight and hypertrophy that amputation was necessary.
John Hunter speaks of six strictures existing in one urethra at
one time; Lallemand of seven; Bolot of eight; Ducamp of five;
Boyer thought three could never exist together; Leroy D'Etoilles
found 11, and Rokitansky met with four.
Sundry Injuries to the Penis.--Fabricius Hildanus mentions a
curious case of paraphimosis caused by violent coitus with a
virgin who had an extremely narrow vagina. Joyce relates a
history of a stout man who awoke with a vigorous erection, and
feeling much irritation, he scratched himself violently. He soon
bled copiously, his shirt and underlying sheets and blankets
being soaked through. On examination the penis was found swollen,
and on drawing back the foreskin a small jet of blood spurted
from a small rupture in the frenum.
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