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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER VI
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Instances of phimosis, being quite common, will be passed without special mention.

Deficient or absent prepuce has been observed by Blasius, Marcellus Donatus, and Gilibert.

Partial deficiency is described by Petit Severinus, and others.
There may be imperforation or congenital occlusion of some portion of the urethra, causing enormous accumulation of urine in the bladder, but fortunately there is generally in such cases some anomalous opening of the urethra giving vent to the excretions.

Tulpius mentions a case of deficient urethra.

In the Ephemerides there is an account of a man who had a constant flow of semen from an abnormal opening in the abdomen.
La Peyroma describes a case of impotence due to ejaculation of the spermatic ducts into the bladder instead of into the urethra, but remarks that there was a cicatrix of a wound of the neighboring parts.
There are a number of instances in which the urethra has terminated in the rectum.


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