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.
As a rule, spontaneous gangrene of the penis has its origin in some intense fever.

Partridge describes a man of forty who had been the victim of typhus fever, and whose penis mortified and dried up, becoming black and like the empty finger of a cast-off glove; in a few days it dropped off.

Boyer cites a case of edema of the prepuce, noticed on the fifteenth day of the fever, and which was followed by gangrene of the penis.

Rostan mentions gangrene of the penis from small-pox.

Intermittent fever has been cited as a cause.