Zacutus Lusitanus speaks of a Viceroy
of India who had a long attack of stubborn priapism without any
voluptuous feeling. Gross refers to prolonged priapism, and
remarks that the majority of cases seem to be due to excessive
coitus.
Moore reports a case in a man of forty who had been married
fifteen years, and who suffered spasmodic contractions of the
muscles of the penis after an incomplete coitus. This
pseudopriapism continued for twenty-three days, during which time
he had unsuccessfully resorted to the application of cold,
bleeding, and other treatment; but on the twenty-sixth day, after
the use of bladders filled with cold water, there was a discharge
from the urethra of a glairy mucus, similar in nature to that in
seminal debility. There was then complete relaxation of the
organ. During all this time the man slept very little, only
occasionally dozing. Donne describes an athletic laborer of
twenty-five who received a wound from a rifle-ball penetrating
the cranial parietes immediately in the posterior superior angle
of the parietal bone, and a few lines from the lambdoid suture.
The ball did not make egress, but passed posteriorly downward.
Reaction was established on the third day, but the inflammatory
symptoms influenced the genitalia.
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