Haslam reports the case of a
man who slipped on the greasy deck of a whaler, and falling
forward with great violence upon a large knife used to cut
blubber, completely severed his penis, beside inflicting a wound
in the abdomen through which the intestines protruded. After
recovery there was a distinct increase of sexual desire and
frequent nocturnal emissions. In the same report there is
recorded the history of a man who had entirely lost his penis,
but had supplied himself with an ivory succedaneum. This fellow
finally became so libidinous that it was necessary to exclude him
from the workhouse, of which he was an inmate.
Norris gives an account of a private who received a gunshot wound
of the penis while it was partly erect. The wound was acquired at
the second battle of Fredericksburg. The ball entered near the
center of the glans penis, and taking a slightly oblique
direction, it passed out of the right side of the penis 1 1/2
inches beyond the glans; it then entered the scrotum, and after
striking the pelvis near the symphysis, glanced off around the
innominate bone, and finally made its exit two inches above the
anus. The after-effects of this injury were incontinence of
urine, and inability to assume the erect position.
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