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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER XIII
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In ten weeks cicatrization was perfect.

In his "Memoirs of the Campaign of 1811," Larrey describes a soldier who, while standing with his legs apart, was struck from behind by a bullet.
The margin of the sphincter and, the skin of the perineum, the bulbous portion of the urethra, some of the skin of the scrotum, and the right testicle were destroyed.

The spermatic cord was divided close to the skin, and the skin of the penis and prepuce was torn.

The soldier was left as dead on the field, but after four months' treatment he recovered.
Madden mentions a man of fifty who fell under the feet of a pair of horses, and suffered avulsion of the testicles through the scrotum.

The organs were mangled, the spermatic cord was torn and hung over the anus, and the penis was lacerated from the frenum down.


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