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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER VI
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From the meatus to the pubis they measure 6 1/2 and 5 1/2 inches; from the extremity to the termination of either crus 9 3/4 and 8 3/4 inches, and the circumferences are 4 3/4 and 4 1/4 inches.

Between these two we can strike an average of the size of the normal penis.
In some instances the penis is so large as to forbid coitus and even inconvenience its possessor, measuring as much as ten or even more inches in length.

Extraordinary cases of large penis are reported by Albinus (who mentions it as a cause for sterility), Bartholinus, Fabricius Hildanus, Paullini, Peyer, Plater, Schurig, Sinibaldus, and Zacchias.

Several cases of enormous penises in the new-born have been observed by Wolff and others.
The penis palme, or suture de la verge of the French, is the name given to those examples of single cutaneous envelope for both the testicles and penis; the penis is adherent to the scrotum by its inferior face; the glans only is free and erection is impossible.

Chretien cites an instance in a man of twenty-five, and Schrumpf of Wesserling describes an example of this rare anomaly.


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