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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER XIII
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Recovery ensued, leaving a penis which measured, when flaccid, three inches long and 1 1/2 inches in diameter.
There is a case reported of a man who had his testicles caught in machinery while ginning cotton.

The skin of the penis was stripped off to its root, the scrotum torn off from its base, and the testicles were contused and lacerated, and yet good recovery ensued.

A peculiarity of this case was the persistent erection of the penis when cold was not applied.
Gibbs mentions a case in which the entire scrotum and the perineum, together with an entire testicle and its cord attached, and nearly all the integument of the penis were torn off, yet the patient recovered with preservation of sexual powers.

The patient was a negro of twenty-two who, while adjusting a belt, had his coat (closely buttoned) caught in the shafting, and his clothes and external genitals torn off.
On examination it was found that the whole scrotum was wrenched off, and also the skin and cellular tissue, from 2 1/2 inches above the spine of the pubes down to the edge of the sphincter ani, including all the breadth of the perineum, together with the left testicle with five inches of its cord attached, and all the integument and cellular covering of the penis except a rim nearly half an inch wide at the extremity and continuous with the mucous membrane of the prepuce.

The right testicle was hanging by its denuded cord, and was apparently covered only by the tunica vaginalis as high up as the abdominal ring, where the elastic feeling of the intestines was distinctly perceptible.
There was not more than half an ounce of blood lost.


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