The raw surface was dressed, the gap in the perineum brought together, and the patient made complete recovery, with preservation of his sexual powers.

Other cases of injuries to the external genital organs (self-inflicted) will be found in the next chapter.
The preservation of the sexual power after injuries of this kind is not uncommon.

There is a case reported of a man whose testicles were completely torn away, and the perineal urethra so much injured that micturition took place through the wound.

After a tedious process the wound healed and the man was discharged, but he returned in ten days with gonorrhea, stating that he had neither lost sexual desire nor power of satisfaction.

Robbins mentions a man of thirty-eight who, in 1874, had his left testicle removed.