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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER XIII
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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.


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