The treatment consisted of pressing out the glans daily until the wound healed; the penis receded spontaneously.

It is stated that the organ would doubtless be equal to any requirements demanded of it.

Demarquay quotes a somewhat similar case in an infant, but it had no urinary opening until after operation.
Among the older writers speaking of deficient or absent penis are Bartholinus, Bauhinus, Cattierus, the Ephemerides, Frank, Panaroli, van der Wiel, and others.

Renauldin describes a man with a small penis and enormous mammae.

Goschler, quoted by Jacobson, speaks of a well-developed man of twenty-two, with abundant hair on his chin and suprapubic region and the scrotum apparently perfect, with median rapine; a careful search failed to show any trace of a penis; on the anterior wall of the rectum four lines above the anus was an orifice which gave vent to urine; the right testicle and cord were normal, but there was an acute orchitis in the left.