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However, he married four years later, and always lived in harmony with his wife.
At the time of his death he was the father of a child, subsequent to whose birth his wife had miscarried, and at the time of report she was daily expecting to be again confined. Willett relates the instance of a horseman of thirty-three who, after using a combination of refuse oils to protect his horse from gnats, was prompted to urinate, and, in so doing, accidentally touched his penis with the mixture.
Sloughing phagedena rapidly ensued, but under medical treatment he eventually recovered. Priapism is sometimes seen as a curious symptom of lesion of the spinal cord.
In such cases it is totally unconnected with any voluptuous sensation and is only found accompanied by motor paralysis.
It may occur spontaneously immediately after accident involving the cord, and is then probably due to undue excitement of the portion of the cord below the lesion, which is deprived of the regulating influence of the brain.
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