The authors have knowledge of
a case in which hemorrhage from the frenum proved fatal. The
patient, in a drunken wager, attempted to circumcise himself with
a piece of tin, and bled to death before medical aid could be
summoned. It sometimes happens that the virile member is
amputated by an animal bite. Paullini and Celliez mention
amputation of the penis by a dog-bite. Morgan describes a boy of
thirteen who was feeding a donkey which suddenly made a snap at
him, unfortunately catching him by the trousers and including the
penis in one of the folds. By the violence of the bite the boy
was thrown to the ground, and his entire prepuce was stripped off
to the root as if it had been done by a knife. There was little
hemorrhage, and the prepuce was found in the trousers, looking
exactly like the finger of a glove. Morgan stated that this was
the third case of the kind of which he had knowledge. Bookey
records a case in which an artilleryman was seized by the penis
by an infuriated horse, and the two crura were pulled out entire.
Amputation of the penis is not always followed by loss of the
sexual power and instinct, but sometimes has the mental effect of
temporarily increasing the desire.
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