This author quotes Stromeyer's case, which was that of a boy of
four and a half years who was kicked by a horse in the external
genital region. The sheath was found empty of the penis, which
had been driven into the perineum.
Raven mentions a case of spontaneous retraction of the penis in a
man of twenty-seven. While in bed he felt a sensation of coldness
in the penis, and on examination he found the organ (a
normal-sized one) rapidly retracting or shrinking. He hastily
summoned a physician, who found that the penis had, in fact,
almost disappeared, the glans being just perceptible under the
pubic arch, and the skin alone visible. The next day the normal
condition was restored, but the patient was weak and nervous for
several days after his fright. In a similar case, mentioned by
Ivanhoff, the penis of a peasant of twenty-three, a married man,
bodily disappeared, and was only captured by repeated effort. The
patient was six days under treatment, and he finally became so
distrustful of his virile member that, to be assured of its
constancy, he tied a string about it above the glans.
Injuries of the penis and testicles self-inflicted are grouped
together and discussed in Chapter XIV.
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